Sentence examples for maximum security penitentiary from inspiring English sources

Make the next stops the former Kingston maximum security penitentiary, now a museum, where one display features inventive escape attempts, and Bellevue House, the home of Canada's first prime minister.

John J. Gotti, who seized control of the Gambino crime family in a murderous coup, flaunted his power during a flamboyant reign as a Mafia boss, and then spent the last years of his life locked away in a maximum security penitentiary, his gang in shambles, died yesterday at the federal prison hospital at Springfield, Mo.

In other precincts, without a soccer ball or lacrosse stick in sight, are the children of "Juvies," a documentary about the juvenile justice system by Liz Garbus, one of the makers of "The Farm: Angola U.S.A," an Oscar-nominated documentary set in the maximum security penitentiary in Angola, La.

Sentenced to ten years in prison, Debs spent a substantial portion of it in the maximum security penitentiary in Atlanta.

The prisoners of Brazil's Arisvaldo de Campos Pires maximum security penitentiary wait out their sentences by knitting, thanks to a partnership with Brazilian fashion designer Raquel Guimaraes.

They have even brought in prison specialists with experience at maximum security penitentiaries like the one in Leavenworth, Kan., to advise the American guards on techniques.

For four years, Mr. Kinney has been a regular on "Oz," the highly regarded HBO series about a maximum-security penitentiary.

For a mild-mannered movie critic the Danish prison drama "R," set in a maximum-security penitentiary, raises inescapable personal questions: Could I survive in such a brutal environment, and if so, how?

It's not an official "Oz" reunion, but short of the cast members of that HBO prison drama getting thrown into a maximum-security penitentiary together it's as close as we're likely to get.

[A12.] Wackenhut in South African Deal Wackenhut Corrections signed a 25-year contract, valued at $245 million, to build and operate a 3,024-bed 3,024-bedecurity penitentiary in South Africa.

Federal officials are reported to be focusing on Fort Leavenworth — site of the military's only maximum- security prison — and another maximum-security penitentiary in Standish, Mich., that is slated to be closed.