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solitary confinement

noun as in confinement in isolation

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The only available bed was in solitary confinement.

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According to the complaint, the inmate spent a little more than a week in solitary confinement before returning to the yard where Fischgrund worked.

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The Foremans were initially held in the city of Kerman and spent 30 days in solitary confinement before being allowed to share a cell.

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Torture, violence, solitary confinement and execution threats have been documented at the facility, which was hit by Israeli strikes earlier in the year.

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He also had the right to receive information from the outside world and family visits as well as written and phone contact – but was is in effect in solitary confinement.

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

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