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| | Supermax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | An early form of supermax-style prison unit appeared in Australia in 1975, when "Katingal" was built inside the Long Bay Correctional Centre in Sydney. |
 | | The term "supermax", however, originated in the United States as a contraction of "super-maximum," and the concept developed from the permanent lockdown of the Federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois dating from 1983 when two corrections officers at that prison were murdered by inmates in two separate incidents on the same day. |
 | | In September 2001, Australia opened a facility in the Goulburn Correctional Centre to the supermax standard. |
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