maximum security
Speech parts
1. maximum security - Noun
2. maximum security - Adjective
Meaning
maximum security (uncountable)
a prison with more restrictions designed to hold the most dangerous criminals of society; supermax.
maximum-security (not comparable)
(of a prison) Having a high level of security, designed to house the most dangerous of prisoners.
Alternative names
maximum-security
Antonyms
Examples
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
A man who died at Edmonton’s maximum-security prison expressed fears for his safety in the lead-up to his death, his girlfriend says.