maximum security prison
noun
: a prison that does as much as possible to keep prisoners from escaping and watches them very closely
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Days after being acquitted in a second trial on charges of shooting two men in a car near a Boston nightclub, Hernandez died by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison in 2017.
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Max Gao, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The podcast dug into Hernandez’s life and career, along with his arrest, eventual conviction for murder and his death by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
Following his conviction for Lloyd's murder, Hernandez began serving his life sentence at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison about 40 miles west of Boston.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
Just days after being acquitted in that case, on April 19, 2017, Hernandez was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Leominster, Mass.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
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Max Gao, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The podcast dug into Hernandez’s life and career, along with his arrest, eventual conviction for murder and his death by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
Following his conviction for Lloyd's murder, Hernandez began serving his life sentence at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison about 40 miles west of Boston.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
Just days after being acquitted in that case, on April 19, 2017, Hernandez was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Leominster, Mass.
—Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Maximum security prison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maximum%20security%20prison. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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