maximum-security

[mak-suh-muhm-si-kyoor-i-tee]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of maximum-security¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Zhang, who had until then been held in a maximum-security prison, left the courtroom in Mexico City and arrived at a house protected by Mexican security officers.

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He enlisted El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele to accept more than 250 U.S. deportees in the country’s notorious maximum-security prison in exchange for $6 million.

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In tightly controlled Eswatini, where King Mswati III's government is accused of political repression, the deportees have been jailed in a maximum-security prison without any charge.

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The charges raise the possibility that dissidents, most in their early 20s, could find themselves in maximum-security prisons for decades after allegedly participating in protests against high taxes, poor job prospects and rampant public corruption.

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Within weeks, she found herself in a maximum-security prison, battling terrorism charges.

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