minimum security
Speech parts
1. minimum security - Noun
2. minimum security - Adjective
Meaning
minimum security (uncountable)
A facility or part of a facility with minimal restrictions, designed to hold the least dangerous criminals of society.
minimum-security (not comparable)
Of a prison, having limited security and offering prisoners certain freedoms.
Because the accomplice wasn't considered a danger, she was sent to a minimum-security prison.
Alternative names
minimum-security
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Examples
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.
MONTREAL -- The COVID-19 virus may have made its way into the Federal Training Centre, a minimum-security prison facility in Laval.
DPSCS said they’ve identified the inmates involved in the incident at the minimum-security pre-release prison, adding they will face criminal and administrative charges and possibly more prison time.
Lindberg will begin his sentence at a minimum-security federal prison camp.
Eleven-year-old Perry Cook is a kind, openhearted boy growing up in the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in Surprise, Neb., a minimum-security facility where his mother is incarcerated for nebulous reasons.