confinement

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Marwan Barghouti is understood to have been kept in solitary confinement for the past two-and-a-half years.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

His marriage to Mr. Lemann’s mother survived a “great crisis” spurred by her confinement to a psychiatric institute and an affair with one of the doctors there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The footage, the lawsuit said, spans eight continuous hours, documenting Timberlake’s initial stop, the officer’s questioning, sobriety tests, the singer’s arrest and hours of his confinement over several hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

There’s a really good podcast series called The Habitat on one series of experiments testing how humans could get through the group confinement of a Mars trip.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026

He wrote later to his cousin and good friend William Darwin Fox, “What an awful affair a confinement is: it knocked me up almost as much as it did Emma herself.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman