solitary confinement
solitary confinement
Definition
solitary confinement
noun
confinement of a prisoner in isolation from all other prisoners, often in a dungeonlike cell: a form of extra punishment for misconduct
solitary confinement
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- undergo: She was arrested and had to undergo solitary confinement.
- suffer: Social creatures who live in family groups in Brazil's forests, they suffer solitary confinement.
Preposition: for
- month: Ali was held in solitary confinement for 4 months.
- year: He was immediately put into solitary confinement for two years.
- week: He was held in solitary confinement for five weeks in deplorable conditions.
- period: Those who therefore refused to do any work were punished with solitary confinement for long periods.
- hour: Any inmate not producing the stated amount was put on a bread and water diet in solitary confinement for 12 hours.
- day: After leaving him in solitary confinement for two days, they began to torture him.
Adjective modifier
- virtual: The ` new system ' , however consisted of minimizing the contact of fellow prisoners so that they lived in virtual solitary confinement.
Preposition: with
- explanation: That all changes in 1988, when he's suddenly kidnaped and locked up in solitary confinement with no explanation.
Preposition: in
- prison: Mr Irving faces spending the Yule season in solitary confinement in a foreign prison.
- cell: This is good news however six children remain in custody, held in solitary confinement in underground cells in the military base.
- cage: For up to 20 years the macaques had lived in solitary confinement in small cages.
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