supermax meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

supermax

noun

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

US 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 American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 11 Jun 2023:

adj

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

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.2023 June 11, “‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison – report”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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