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

He constructed the Intake Release Center, which is responsible for processing all individuals being booked into and released from the Orange County jail system, Barnes said, and expanded the county’s Theo Lacy Facility, a maximum-security jail complex in Orange, amid concerns of jail overcrowding.

From Los Angeles Times

Some Mexican Mafia members held at the maximum-security prison at Pelican Bay accused Estrada of being greedy, witnesses said.

From Los Angeles Times

He can sound downright progressive on the need to address root sources of crime instead of just building maximum-security prisons, to invest in public education and neighborhoods of all sizes, to attack white-collar criminals as aggressively as petty ones, and to not return to the overly punitive crackdowns of the war on drugs.

From Slate

José Duval was now inside the Cecot – the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism – a maximum-security jail which is the cornerstone of Mr Bukele’s anti-gang policy.

From BBC

He was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

From Los Angeles Times