maximum-security
Strictest prison classification
Maximum-security describes the highest level of confinement and surveillance in prisons or other detention facilities: a maximum-security prison, the maximum-security wing.
Such facilities house inmates considered most dangerous or likely to escape.
The term sometimes extends metaphorically to any heavily guarded or restricted space: The building had maximum-security protocols.
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- supermaxHighest-security prison classification
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
- inmateConfined facility resident
prisoner · felon · convict · cellblock · solitary · confinement · sentence · detention
Involving physical force
- dangerousApt to cause harm
- murdererOne who unlawfully kills
- gangOrganized criminal group
- escapeFlight from captivity
riot · shank · contraband · assault · threat · criminal · smuggling · lockdown
Heavily defended military structure
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- razor wireBladed security fencing
checkpoint · sally port · reinforced · concrete · steel doors · bulletproof · fortification · enclosure
prison
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- supermaxHighest-security prison classification
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
inmate · prisoner · felon · convict · cellblock · solitary · confinement · sentence · detention · custody
violent
Involving physical force
escape · riot · shank · contraband · assault · threat · criminal · smuggling · lockdown · segregation
fortress
Heavily defended military structure
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
razor wire · checkpoint · sally port · reinforced · concrete · steel doors · bulletproof · fortification · enclosure · compound
watchtower
Elevated structure for surveillance
- camerasVisual recording devices
- CCTVSurveillance camera network
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
guards · patrol · sensors · alarms · detection · observation · tracking · scanning · headcount · searchlight
maximum-securityminimum-security
Least guarded confinement level
minimum · open prison · medium · work camp · halfway house
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