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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The administration sent more than 100 men to a maximum security prison in El Salvador under the law.
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Joel Rose, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
They were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador on planes that were in the air as a federal judge ordered that the deportations be halted.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
The dispute began with a lawsuit by Venezuelans who said they were wrongly accused and on the verge of being deported and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
—David Catanese, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Henning and Birch were convicted in Litchfield County and sent as teens to the state’s then notorious maximum security prison in Somers on 50- and 55-year sentences, respectively.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
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Joel Rose, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
They were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador on planes that were in the air as a federal judge ordered that the deportations be halted.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
The dispute began with a lawsuit by Venezuelans who said they were wrongly accused and on the verge of being deported and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
—David Catanese, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Henning and Birch were convicted in Litchfield County and sent as teens to the state’s then notorious maximum security prison in Somers on 50- and 55-year sentences, respectively.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Maximum security prison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maximum%20security%20prison. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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