Supermax
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Supermax is a noun meaning (US) A prison with the highest possible level of security.
Meaning
(US) A prison with the highest possible level of security.
More Meanings
- Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.
Example Sentences
As he sits today in Supermax, Powers had amputated his fingers, a testicle, his scrotum and his earlobes, has cut his Achilles tendon, and had tried several times to kill himself.
Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.
Word Forms
- supermaxes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prisons, maximum security, maximum, supermaxim, utmost, maximal.
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