supermax

Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.

Adjective

  1. Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.
    • 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....

    Synonyms: ADX

Origin

From super- + max (as in maximum security prison).

Noun

  1. A prison with the highest possible level of security.
    • 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. - 2012 June 18, Andrew Cohen, “An...

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