Confinement in a sentence as a noun

If you put us in solitary confinement we go insane.

In the process, he violated the terms of his release from confinement.

Here it is everybody, this comment is the reason why we still have solitary confinement.

If you got in a knife fight and stabbed someone, you might well be held pending trial, but not usually in solitary confinement.

Solitary confinement... What kind of justice system still considers this kind of punishment a valid form of reformation.

Solitary confinement is now so obviously a form of torture that it's surprising this is still controversial.

"Mitnick became a symbol of government oppression in the late 1990s, when he spent four and a half years in prison and eight months in solitary confinement before his trial on hacking charges.

">What I want to tell Acosta is that no part of my experiencenot the uncertainty of when I would be free again, not the tortured screams of other prisonerswas worse than the four months I spent in solitary confinement.

"Mitnick served five years in prison — four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement — because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone".

You are hereby sentenced to:Segregated eatingDaily verbal abuseThe regular disruption of your personal possessionsBeing physically assaulted once for every 5-7 years of confinementBeing seriously injured through assault once for every 10-15 years of confinementBeing raped once for every 15-20 years of confinementWhile these are extrapolations from prison statistics, the uncertainty makes the sentence all the more chilling.

Confinement definitions

noun

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

See also: parturiency labor labour lying-in travail childbed

noun

the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

noun

the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"

noun

the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

See also: restriction