supermax
/ˈsuːpəmaks
/adjective
Denoting or relating to an extremely high-security prison or part of a prison, intended for particularly dangerous prisoners.The Obama administration has promised to put a second security fence around the already super max facility....
- Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said the rejection was an example of the harsh conditions imposed on inmates at the supermax prison.
- Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of patrol at a supermax prison in Colorado.
noun
A supermax prison.That hardly applies to the prisoners held in America's supermaxes....
- I shouldn't even be in super max.
- But the whole idea that they could effectively organize while a prisoner at a supermax is a little hard to understand.
Origin
1970s: shortened from super-maximum, i.e. 'greater than the expected or conventional maximum'.