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单词 supermax
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Definition of supermax in English:

supermax

adjectiveˈsuːpəmaksˈso͞opərˌmaks
  • Denoting or relating to an extremely high-security prison or part of a prison, intended for particularly dangerous prisoners.

    (关押特别危险的罪犯的监狱或牢房)戒备最森严的

    most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of patrol at a supermax prison in Colorado.
    • Most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system.
    • Corrections departments spent a large portion of their expanded budgets on "supermax" prisons, high-security fortresses designed to house the most violent inmates.
    • He's now doing life at the supermax federal pen out in Colorado.
    • Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Ohio's supermax prison in Youngstown.
    • On Thursday, Brinkema gave him six life sentences, to run as two consecutive life terms, in the federal supermax prison at Florence, Colo.
    • We have currently and we've been housing many terrorists at supermax facilities here in the United States, people like Richard Reid, the suspected the shoe bomber, among others.
    • He noted, however, that there was no supermax facility in his district.
    • Hamza had argued that he would be separated from his family and suffer in a high-security supermax prison in Colorado if he were jailed for terrorism offences.
    • The Obama administration has promised to put a second security fence around the already super max facility.
    • The average cost to maintain a prisoner in a supermax prison is double that of maintaining a prisoner in a regular state prison.
    • He could face detention in a notorious US "supermax" jail.
    • In 2000, the Justice Department brought federal charges against prison guards for shooting inmates at Pelican Bay, California's supermax prison.
    • Garner is one of twenty thousand prisoners held in supermax prisons in 22 states, the District of Columbia and at a federal supermax in Colorado.
    • He is on his way now to a super max facility, a federal prison, in Florence, Colorado - Kyra.
    • Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said the rejection was an example of the harsh conditions imposed on inmates at the supermax prison.
    • There are thousands of dangerous prisoners being held securely behind bars in supermax prisons across the United States.
    • Forty-one states have supermax units that resemble Pelican Bay.
    • Many of them are over at the supermax facility in Florence, Colorado.
    • Many "supermax" prisons subject inmates to prolonged isolation in tiny cells, which frequently fosters mental illness.
nounˈsuːpəmaksˈso͞opərˌmaks
  • A supermax prison.

    戒备最森严的监狱,顶级监狱

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But I think, you know, in the case of a supermax, it's different.
    • Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of patrol at a supermax prison in Colorado.
    • The system of punishment in supermax units resembles nothing so much as the system of punishment pioneered at Eastern State.
    • Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said the rejection was an example of the harsh conditions imposed on inmates at the supermax prison.
    • These prisons, popularly known as a supermaxes, have been the target of prisoner lawsuits in Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, and Illinois.
    • Human rights groups denounce supermaxes for dehumanizing inmates, leaving them warped and unable to return to normal society.
    • In a supermax prison, when you get unruly, and need a "time out," you go to a holding cell.
    • I shouldn't even be in super max.
    • But the whole idea that they could effectively organize while a prisoner at a supermax is a little hard to understand.
    • Most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system.
    • They find the emergence of "supermax" prisons and harsh "zero tolerance" polices for nonviolent drug offenders profoundly troubling.
    • Generations later, more than 5,000 inmates in state and federal lockups, from minimum security to the so-called supermax, ring the town like a bracelet.
    • Today, as a result of a settlement, inmates with the most serious mental illnesses are banned from the supermax and are cared for at Garner.
    • Many of the prisoners in America's supermaxes also can be held indefinitely as the Iraqi prisoners were.
    • The average cost to maintain a prisoner in a supermax prison is double that of maintaining a prisoner in a regular state prison.
    • Like so many other claims that Bush has made about the glowing future of Iraq, the horror of America's supermaxes mocks that claim as well.
    • Many "supermax" prisons subject inmates to prolonged isolation in tiny cells, which frequently fosters mental illness.
    • He could face detention in a notorious US "supermax" jail.
    • The Obama administration has promised to put a second security fence around the already super max facility.
    • That hardly applies to the prisoners held in America's supermaxes.

Origin

1970s: shortened from super-maximum, i.e. 'greater than the expected or conventional maximum'.

Definition of supermax in US English:

supermax

adjectiveˈso͞opərˌmaks
  • Denoting or relating to an extremely high-security prison or part of a prison, intended for particularly dangerous prisoners.

    (关押特别危险的罪犯的监狱或牢房)戒备最森严的

    most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Garner is one of twenty thousand prisoners held in supermax prisons in 22 states, the District of Columbia and at a federal supermax in Colorado.
    • Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Ohio's supermax prison in Youngstown.
    • He's now doing life at the supermax federal pen out in Colorado.
    • Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of patrol at a supermax prison in Colorado.
    • We have currently and we've been housing many terrorists at supermax facilities here in the United States, people like Richard Reid, the suspected the shoe bomber, among others.
    • Most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system.
    • On Thursday, Brinkema gave him six life sentences, to run as two consecutive life terms, in the federal supermax prison at Florence, Colo.
    • Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said the rejection was an example of the harsh conditions imposed on inmates at the supermax prison.
    • He noted, however, that there was no supermax facility in his district.
    • He could face detention in a notorious US "supermax" jail.
    • Hamza had argued that he would be separated from his family and suffer in a high-security supermax prison in Colorado if he were jailed for terrorism offences.
    • The average cost to maintain a prisoner in a supermax prison is double that of maintaining a prisoner in a regular state prison.
    • Corrections departments spent a large portion of their expanded budgets on "supermax" prisons, high-security fortresses designed to house the most violent inmates.
    • There are thousands of dangerous prisoners being held securely behind bars in supermax prisons across the United States.
    • In 2000, the Justice Department brought federal charges against prison guards for shooting inmates at Pelican Bay, California's supermax prison.
    • Many "supermax" prisons subject inmates to prolonged isolation in tiny cells, which frequently fosters mental illness.
    • The Obama administration has promised to put a second security fence around the already super max facility.
    • Many of them are over at the supermax facility in Florence, Colorado.
    • He is on his way now to a super max facility, a federal prison, in Florence, Colorado - Kyra.
    • Forty-one states have supermax units that resemble Pelican Bay.
nounˈso͞opərˌmaks
  • A supermax prison.

    戒备最森严的监狱,顶级监狱

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Generations later, more than 5,000 inmates in state and federal lockups, from minimum security to the so-called supermax, ring the town like a bracelet.
    • These prisons, popularly known as a supermaxes, have been the target of prisoner lawsuits in Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, and Illinois.
    • Like so many other claims that Bush has made about the glowing future of Iraq, the horror of America's supermaxes mocks that claim as well.
    • But the whole idea that they could effectively organize while a prisoner at a supermax is a little hard to understand.
    • Human rights groups denounce supermaxes for dehumanizing inmates, leaving them warped and unable to return to normal society.
    • The system of punishment in supermax units resembles nothing so much as the system of punishment pioneered at Eastern State.
    • The Obama administration has promised to put a second security fence around the already super max facility.
    • Many of the prisoners in America's supermaxes also can be held indefinitely as the Iraqi prisoners were.
    • Most inmates earn their supermax sentence by how they behave in other parts of the prison system.
    • Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of patrol at a supermax prison in Colorado.
    • They find the emergence of "supermax" prisons and harsh "zero tolerance" polices for nonviolent drug offenders profoundly troubling.
    • Many "supermax" prisons subject inmates to prolonged isolation in tiny cells, which frequently fosters mental illness.
    • In a supermax prison, when you get unruly, and need a "time out," you go to a holding cell.
    • He could face detention in a notorious US "supermax" jail.
    • The average cost to maintain a prisoner in a supermax prison is double that of maintaining a prisoner in a regular state prison.
    • Today, as a result of a settlement, inmates with the most serious mental illnesses are banned from the supermax and are cared for at Garner.
    • But I think, you know, in the case of a supermax, it's different.
    • Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said the rejection was an example of the harsh conditions imposed on inmates at the supermax prison.
    • I shouldn't even be in super max.
    • That hardly applies to the prisoners held in America's supermaxes.

Origin

1970s: shortened from super-maximum, i.e. ‘greater than the expected or conventional maximum’.

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