Curious to name a cage-free owl sanctuary after America's most notorious maximum security prison, but Owlcatraz's owners seem unable to resist a pun.
Unable to gain access to a prison for a story about corrections officers, Conover, a journalist, became one himself — at Sing Sing, no less, one of the most notorious maximum security lock-ups in the United States.
The second was the Volterra Fortress in Verona, among Italy's most notorious maximum-security prisons.
Alcatraz (Spanish: "Pelican") was from 1934 to 1963 the most notorious maximum-security, "escape-proof" prison in the United States.
The escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most notorious cartel boss, from a maximum-security prison by a mile-long tunnel, was evidently the last thing President Enrique Peña Nieto's government expected from the kingpin – even if the drug lord had previously escaped from prison and shown a penchant for elaborate tunnels.
The Mexican government is offering a $3.8 million reward for the recapture of the country's most notorious drug trafficker after he escaped from a maximum security prison on through a 1.5km tunnel.
Norway's most notorious prisoner was sentenced in August 2012 to a maximum 21-year sentence – which can be extended if he is still considered a danger – for killing eight people in a bomb attack outside a government building in Oslo, then shooting dead another 69, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya on 22 July 2011.
Riina, the most notorious Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses", has languished in a maximum security prison for 22 years.
It is moving toward a "maximum contaminant level" for the two most notorious types of PFAS, and listing them as "hazardous substances," another important legal standard.
When the most notorious drug lord in the Americas, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, escaped from a maximum security prison for a second time last year, Mexican officials finally agreed to extradite him to the United States.
Alejandro Hope, the security editor of El Daily Post and a former Mexican intelligence official, said Guzmán's frequent conjugal visits made it clear that the country's most notorious drug lord, who had already escaped once from prison, was receiving preferential treatment at the maximum-security facility.
