medium security prison
Mid-level correctional facility
A medium security prison is a correctional facility with tighter controls than minimum security but less restrictive than maximum security.
Inmates typically have more movement within the facility than in high-security prisons but face perimeter fencing, regular head counts, and supervised activities.
Most house offenders with moderate sentences or disciplinary records: He was transferred to a medium security prison after two years of good behavior.
- correctional facilityInstitution housing convicted offenders
- behind barsIn jail
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- cell blockPrison housing unit
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
cells · yard · warden · barbed wire · jumpsuit · visitation · visitor room · rehabilitation · lockdown · sentence · time served · good behavior · bunks · solitary confinement · cafeteria · contraband · commissary · count
medium security prisonmaximum security prison
Highest-level detention facility
minimum security prison · supermax · open prison · work camp · halfway house
medium, media, medial, median, mediate, mediation, mediator, intermediate, mediocre