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Answer for the clue "Prison security measure ", 8 letters:
lockdown

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" Lockdown " is the 42nd episode of Lost . It is the 17th episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams , and written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof . It first aired on March 29, 2006, on ABC . The character of John Locke ...

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n. the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (''in an institution, such as a prison or school'') The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance 2 (context US English) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

Usage examples of lockdown.

Colonel has already stated, the Federation and Starfleet have instituted a class-one lockdown of Bajoran space.

Cardassians are ideally suited to help enforce the lockdown and assume point in the detection process.

Only weeks after finally having their petition for UFP membership accepted, Bajor was dealing with the loss of their first minister and a lockdown of the severest order, at least partly patrolled by armed Cardassians.

Business is bad because people are scared, by the lockdown and the possibility of anti-Federation terrorism.

A Marine lockdown on Jupiter Prime, after all, would be rather counterproductive.

Chairman Cahartez to initiate lockdown on the basis of these readings.

But it was her sly dodging of his request to tell her people of the lockdown that bemused him.

It was, she supposed, still possible for someone to copy the transmission even through the lockdown, even through the layers of security, but it would take time and effort.

It was a bolt-action rifle, which he appreciated because the total lockdown of a closed bolt gave that tiny extra stability at the moment of detonation.

Lately there had been none, and the lockdown had made his window view static, rendered the land beyond the perimeter fence as blank as brown paper, no motion but gliding cloud-shadows and the occasional darting flock of birds.

His certainty was tempered only by the nagging fact that the lockdown had already gone on an unreasonably long time.

One thing that made the lockdown so strange was that there was only one video channel now and everybody had to watch the same shows.

But here comes all this lockdown bullshit, plus whatever happened at Crossbank, not to mention Marguerite and that little girl of hers.

Ray was impulsive, more impulsive than ever since the lockdown, maybe impulsive enough to brave the storm and show up on her doorstep at three in the morning.

Lowell that, rather than ask about that, Channing chose to change the subject back to the lockdown and the number of media types outside the courthouse.