secure facility
Locked-down building complex
A secure facility is a building or complex designed to prevent unauthorized entry or exit—prisons, psychiatric hospitals, military installations, or data centers.
The term emphasizes controlled access and physical barriers: He was transferred to a secure facility after the escape attempt.
In medical contexts, it often refers to locked psychiatric units where patients cannot leave freely.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- detentionTemporary official holding
- guardedWary and restrained
- compoundCombined into one
perimeter · fence · razor wire · classified · top secret · restricted · asylum · inmates · holding cell · cells · solitary confinement · surveillance · checkpoint · clearance · vault · bunker · military · psychiatric
- secure placesprison, jail, vault, bank vault, fortress
- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician
- juvenile justicejuvenile court, juvenile hall, juvenile detention, juvenile courts, youth court
- Military Securitymilitary police, MPs, classified, top secret, restricted area
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvie, reform school, detention center, youth detention
- hiding placeshideout, bolthole, cubbyhole, den, hidey-hole
secure facilitypublic space
Area open to everyone
public building · public park · town square · public plaza · commons
secure facilityopen range
Unfenced public grazing land
free space · halfway house · open prison · sanctuary · refuge
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