How to Use maximum security prison in a Sentence

maximum security prison

noun
  • Upgrades to do so at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise could take about six months, Ricks said.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
  • He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in a maximum security prison.
    Laura Zornosa, TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The island served as the base for a maximum security prison up until 1998, when the prison was shut down.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • He was dragged off to a maximum security prison without an explanation or a warrant.
    Gisela Salomon, ajc, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Guzman is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
    Luc Cohen, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The 44-year-old was scheduled to be transferred to a maximum security prison, but was discovered missing from his cell.
    Harriet Marsden, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Lopez is being held in a maximum security prison awaiting trial, Bullock said.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And then, ultimately, in a maximum security prison in Britain.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The chamber’s construction at the maximum security prison started in late May and is expected to last between six and nine months.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Her husband is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor when her ship crash lands near a maximum security prison.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
  • By 2012, he was convicted of her murder and was booked in a maximum security prison in Peru.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Dozens of Venezuelans were deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador last year.
    Juan Carlos Chavez, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The prison building where the Venezuelans were held is next to a smaller, 75-cell maximum security prison, called Camp 5.
    Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 6 Feb. 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 judge recommended that Crusius serve his sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado.
    Morgan Lee and Paul J. Weber, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Jurors returned last month for a penalty phase to decide whether he should be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life at a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.
    CBS News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Kohberger’s attorneys contested the extra costs to their client, who is serving his sentence at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise.
    Kevin Fixler november 13, Idaho Statesman, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Kohberger, who turns 31 this month, is incarcerated at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Nov. 2025
  • He’s assigned to the Connally Unit maximum security prison in Kenedy, Texas.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Kohberger was listed Wednesday as remaining in his J Block cell at the maximum security prison.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has used the Act to remove more than 130 Venezuelan men to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 1 May 2025
  • Kohberger, who turns 31 this week, is serving consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise.
    Kevin Fixler november 19, Idaho Statesman, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Last week relatives and activists said the artist had been moved from a maximum security prison in Guanajay, in the province of Artemisa, to an unknown location.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The administration sent more than 100 men to a maximum security prison in El Salvador under the law.
    Joel Rose, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Broadnax is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 at Huntsville Unit, a maximum security prison in Texas.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The eight men on death row in Idaho are kept at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise, while Row is held at the Idaho women’s prison in Pocatello.
    Kevin Fixler september 5, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Anthony Williams had been serving out a life sentence when the fight exploded Tuesday inside a maximum security prison in rural Ely.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Kohberger is incarcerated for the remainder of his life at Idaho’s maximum security prison south of Boise.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • After his sentencing, Kohberger was transferred to a maximum security prison located near the city of Kuna.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025

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