How to Use maximum security prison in a Sentence
maximum security prison
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The island served as the base for a maximum security prison up until 1998, when the prison was shut down.
—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
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He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in a maximum security prison.
—Laura Zornosa, TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
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By 2012, he was convicted of her murder and was booked in a maximum security prison in Peru.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
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The 44-year-old was scheduled to be transferred to a maximum security prison, but was discovered missing from his cell.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
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Jurors returned last month for a penalty phase to decide whether he should be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life at a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.
—CBS News, 13 Mar. 2023
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Their father, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was convicted in 2019 and is serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado.
—Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
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Ciara and Russell Wilson recently spent time with 300 inmates at a maximum security prison to sing, dance and read Bible verses in hopes of spreading joy.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
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He was dragged off to a maximum security prison without an explanation or a warrant.
—Gisela Salomon, ajc, 22 Feb. 2023
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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
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The ruling — announced inside a white canvas tent on the grounds of a maximum security prison near the capital, Maputo — ends a trial that lasted almost 70 days spread over a period of more than six months.
—Matthew Hill, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
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The judge recommended that Crusius serve his sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado.
—Morgan Lee and Paul J. Weber, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
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Her husband is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2023
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Murdaugh will likely be at Kirkland, which is also a maximum security prison, for roughly 45 days while he gets processed and undergoes medical tests, Shain said.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
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Rae: Navalny is in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison.
—CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
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She was accused by federal prosecutors of smuggling drugs into the United States and helping her husband tunnel his way out of a maximum security prison in Mexico in 2015.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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Navalny survived a poisoning and spent months in isolation cells before dying in an Arctic maximum security prison.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
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The WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen faces a sentence of up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison if he is extradited and will face several charges, including espionage.
—Ashley Carnahan, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023
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He was moved Wednesday afternoon to a maximum security prison in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
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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
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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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Meade, 31, has most recently been serving time at a maximum security prison in Kuna for aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a firearm enhancement, according to police and Idaho Department of Correction records.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
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