super-maxadj.n.

1975 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 2 Oct. 6/1 A proposed ‘supermax’ prison facility at the Adult Correctional Institutions..as a way of isolating dangerous or troublesome inmates.

1981 National Jrnl. (U.S.) 10 Oct. 1823/3 The legislation's centerpiece was $44 million for a new ‘super-max’ prison.

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 31 Mar. 14 a In supporting the ‘super-max’ proposal..the union listened to the accounts of several correctional officers who have been victims of prison violence.

1995 Times 8 Aug. 6/3 The [prison] service is also considering the building of one or two ‘supermax’ jails to house up to 300 high-risk prisoners.

2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Oct. 50/2 New York is one of more than 30 states that operate 23-hour confinement units and prisons, sometimes called ‘supermax’ facilities.

1976 Federal Suppl. 422 82 Did you know that over $200,000.00 has been spent on studies and surveys of the A.C.I. since Philip Noel took office and not one of them recommends construction of a so-called ‘super-max’?

1980 News (Frederick, Maryland) 3 Nov. 1/2 The penitentiary's ‘super max’ or ‘C-block’, where the state's most dangerous prisoners are housed.

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 8 June There are inmates in the system who need to be put in a super-max.

2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 157/2 The Administrative Maximum Prison, in Florence, Colorado, a ‘supermax’ encircled by snow-covered ravines and renowned as ‘the Alcatraz of the Rockies’.