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maximum-security

a. (context of a prison English) Having a high level of security, designed to house the most dangerous of prisoners.

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They have been known to vanish without a trace from maximum-security holding cells.

Soldiers courts-martialed for particularly savage murders and condemned to life sentences were offered the choice of rotting in maximum-security military prisons or earning a measure of freedom by participating in this secret enterprise.

The story demonstrates the author's forte in the locked-room branch of detective fiction, with The Thinking Machine taking up a challenge to escape from a maximum-security prison cell with nothing but ``shoes, stockings, trousers and shirt''and, of course, his power to think.

The assassin would be tried locally and doubtless sent away for a lengthy prison term, but at the very least Murray and the Bureau wanted him caged in Marion, Illinois - the maximum-security federal prison for really troublesome offenders.

Lady Rosario has him in a maximum-security ward with handpicked Wasps watching him round-the-clock, and Captain Okanami thinks he'll pull through, but he'll be hospitalized for months.

The News International compound was still surrounded with sinister fencing and electronic gates, but there was a new maximum-security reception centre that looked like something you'd expect to find at a plutonium depot at Sellafield.

The President, it was rumored, was not safely tucked into a maximum-security hole, nor was the Vice President.

Stuart Morris Iversonheld in isolation under a twenty-four-hour-a-day suicide watch at a federal maximum-security prisonwasn't talking.