Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
prison with very highsecurity . - adjective Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word supermax.
Examples
-
BLITZER: There are several supermax -- what they call supermax prisons in the United States, like in Marion, Illinois, for example ...
-
Man, I hate the Yankees, too, but Federal supermax is harsh.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » It Won’t Stop Until Someone (Besides the Taxpayers) Pays a Price 2010
-
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: There could be some trouble at the place they call supermax, that super prison out there in Colorado.
-
People have complained about similar treatment in supermax.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
-
The March 30 New Yorker includes "Hellhole," Atul Gawande's exploration of the distinctions without a difference we may make in discussing torture, in particular focusing on the 25,000 U.S. inmates in isolation at so-called supermax prisons.
-
BLITZER: They're called supermax, some of these penitentiaries.
-
But the whole idea that they could effectively organize while a prisoner at a supermax is a little hard to understand.
-
The Florence ADX was one of the so-called supermax prison facilities.
Four Blind Mice Patterson, James, 1947- 2002
-
Jesus Hector "El Guero" Palma Salazar, one of the Sinaloa Cartel's founders, in isolated custody at the so-called supermax prison in Colorado.
-
Henderson, conceded that so-called "supermax" confinement "may well hover on the edge of what is humanly tolerable," though he ruled that it remained acceptable for most inmates.
NYT > Home Page By COLIN DAYAN 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.