Definition of "minimum-security" []

• Having fewer restrictions than others of its kind: a minimum-security prison; a minimum-security air force base. (adjective)

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• "The budget deal also eliminates 3,700 prison beds in medium- and minimum-security facilities."
• "At present, he was housed at the South Fork Forest Camp in Tillamook, a minimum-security arrangement in which inmates worked on state forest and parklands, mostly clearing brush and trees, and cleaning up the riverbeds."
• "Mr. Scrushy has been incarcerated in a minimum-security jail in Beaumont, Texas, since June 2007."