Prisons were created to detain people awaiting trial or awaiting punishment. Now prisons are places for punishment, public safety, and rehabilitation.
What comes to mind when you think about prison? A place with cells with a lot of people in orange, getting into fights in the common area or cafeteria? What do you think of when you think of maximum security prisons?
Does Hannibal Lecter come to mind? Strapped on a dolly with a hockey mask behind thick glass/polycarbonate. Maximum security prisons or Supermax prisons are the prisons where the worst criminals are kept. If Patrick Bateman had been caught he would have been in a supermax prison, probably in the mental wing…