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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Abdullah al-Muhajir, is currently under lock and key in a maximum security prison after being arrested in 2002 and later convicted for planning plotting a radiological bomb a.k.a.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Psych patients treated in Idaho maximum security prison An Idaho law passed decades ago requires the state to house severe psychiatric patients within the maximum security prison because there weren’t any secure enough hospitals, ProPublica reported.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 6 June 2025
At this time last year the population of Stateville, which still included 430 people in the maximum security prison, was about 1,550, Puzzello said.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Prior to 1984, the island was used as the site of a maximum security prison, likened to Alcatraz, reachable only by a two-hour boat ride and home to more than 1,000 prisoners throughout its history.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Psych patients treated in Idaho maximum security prison An Idaho law passed decades ago requires the state to house severe psychiatric patients within the maximum security prison because there weren’t any secure enough hospitals, ProPublica reported.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 6 June 2025
At this time last year the population of Stateville, which still included 430 people in the maximum security prison, was about 1,550, Puzzello said.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Prior to 1984, the island was used as the site of a maximum security prison, likened to Alcatraz, reachable only by a two-hour boat ride and home to more than 1,000 prisoners throughout its history.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
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