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solitary confinement

noun as in confinement in isolation

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Once transferred to Karaj Prison, he spent an additional 15 days in solitary confinement.

I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights.

I have been told that, if I continue with this protest, I will be placed in solitary confinement.

Livvix, 30, is now in solitary confinement in the maximum-security Ayalon prison in Ramla, a city near Tel Aviv.

Ibrahim says that his son spent over 10 years in solitary confinement because of these incidents.

Here he had to stay in solitary confinement for twenty-four hours and on the plainest kind of a diet.

Of course you have to associate with a bad lot; still that is better than almost solitary confinement.

This fact, together with the opportunity for reflection afforded by solitary confinement, had its effect—its natural effect.

On the 4th of August, about one o'clock in the afternoon, I put into solitary confinement a plant-louse of the third generation.

Guard-room, disgrace, solitary confinement—in fact, everything has been tried; but all to no purpose.'

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to solitary confinement, such as: holding cell, isolation, lockdown, solitary, and the hole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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