maximum security prison
Highest-custody lockup
A maximum security prison is a correctional facility with the most restrictive conditions and highest level of security measures—perimeter walls, armed guards, constant surveillance, and severe limits on inmate movement.
These prisons house offenders considered most dangerous or likely to escape: He was transferred to a maximum security prison after the attempted breakout.
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- cell blockPrison housing unit
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- secure placesjail, vault, bank vault, fortress, fort
- law enforcementFBI, police station, patrolmen, police officer, cop
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Low-risk inmate housing
open prison · prison farm · halfway house · medium security prison
maximum security prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
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