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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That’s the question Chad intended to ask Clyde upon returning to Salem, only to discover that the criminal had already been transported to a maximum security prison.
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 June 2024
Peltier, who's 79 and a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, sits incarcerated at a federal maximum security prison in Coleman, Florida.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
Creech, 73, incarcerated for nearly 50 years for multiple murders, was strapped to a bed in the Idaho Department of Correction’s execution chamber at the maximum security prison in February.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2024
The two prisoners who attacked the corrections officers were transported to Oak Park Heights, the state’s maximum security prison, the news release said.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
If extradited from London, Assange would stand trial in Alexandria, Virginia, and could face up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison if convicted.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 May 2024
Swedish prosecutors ultimately dropped the rape charges, but Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy and placed in Belmarsh, a maximum security prison in southeast London, as the U.S. unveiled its charges against him.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 20 May 2024
Strawberry addressed inmates Wednesday at two medium security prisons in Hagerstown, Roxbury and the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown, then spoke at the Western Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Cumberland.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
After decades of detaining psychiatric patients in maximum security prison cells, Idaho is finally on the verge of building a secure mental health facility that would house those with serious mental illness more humanely.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024
Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 June 2024
Peltier, who's 79 and a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, sits incarcerated at a federal maximum security prison in Coleman, Florida.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
Creech, 73, incarcerated for nearly 50 years for multiple murders, was strapped to a bed in the Idaho Department of Correction’s execution chamber at the maximum security prison in February.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2024
The two prisoners who attacked the corrections officers were transported to Oak Park Heights, the state’s maximum security prison, the news release said.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
If extradited from London, Assange would stand trial in Alexandria, Virginia, and could face up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison if convicted.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 May 2024
Swedish prosecutors ultimately dropped the rape charges, but Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy and placed in Belmarsh, a maximum security prison in southeast London, as the U.S. unveiled its charges against him.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 20 May 2024
Strawberry addressed inmates Wednesday at two medium security prisons in Hagerstown, Roxbury and the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown, then spoke at the Western Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Cumberland.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
After decades of detaining psychiatric patients in maximum security prison cells, Idaho is finally on the verge of building a secure mental health facility that would house those with serious mental illness more humanely.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024
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