maximum-security

American  

[mak-suh-muhm-si-kyoor-i-tee] / ˈmæk sə məm sɪˈkyʊər ɪ ti /

adjective

1. designed for or housing prisoners regarded as being very dangerous to society.

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Etymology

Origin of maximum-security

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

She also took the message abroad, in one instance visiting a maximum-security prison in El Salvador that took in some migrants deported from the US.

From BBC

At the Stateville Correctional Center—a maximum-security prison in Illinois, which Gov. JB Pritzker ordered closed last year for unrelated reasons—a group of professors offered courses for inmates, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had been placed in Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum-security prison for mentally ill convicts located between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

Bureau of Prisons records show he is housed at a maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo., know as the “Alcatraz of The Rockies,” that also houses the “El Chapo” and other high-profile criminals.

From Los Angeles Times

The 57-year-old disgraced former attorney is in the far western corner of the state serving a life sentence in a rural maximum-security prison, where he is housed in protective custody away from the hundreds of other inmates.

From The Wall Street Journal