maximum-security prison
Highest-custody detention center
A maximum-security prison is a correctional facility with the strictest controls and most intensive supervision, designed to hold inmates considered most dangerous or likely to escape.
Features typically include high walls, armed guards, solitary cells, and heavily restricted movement: He was transferred to a maximum-security prison after the escape attempt.
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- surveillance camerasVideo monitoring equipment
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- motion sensorsDevices detecting physical movement
- correctional officersPrison security staff
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Low-restriction detention facility
prison farm · halfway house · work camp · prison camp · home confinement
maximum-security prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
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