maximum security prison

noun

: a prison that does as much as possible to keep prisoners from escaping and watches them very closely

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Days after being acquitted in a second trial on charges of shooting two men in a car near a Boston nightclub, Hernandez died by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison in 2017. —

Max Gao, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024 The podcast dug into Hernandez’s life and career, along with his arrest, eventual conviction for murder and his death by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison. —

Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024 Following his conviction for Lloyd's murder, Hernandez began serving his life sentence at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison about 40 miles west of Boston. —

Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024 Just days after being acquitted in that case, on April 19, 2017, Hernandez was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Leominster, Mass. —

Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for maximum security prison

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