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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El Chapo Guzman was extradited to the United States in 2017 and is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison. —

Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 26 July 2024 The department said that the two inmates involved were transported to the state’s maximum security prison, and the Stillwater prison is on lockdown while an investigation is underway. —

San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for maximum security prison

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