solitary confinement
noun
1.
the confinement of a prisoner in a cell or other place in which he or she is completely isolated from others.
Origin
1775-85
Examples from the web for
solitary confinement
They had been committed to the prison after his siege of
solitary confinement
had begun.
In prisons,
solitary confinement
is used as punishment.
Not really same as one can learn little about free humans from studying humans in the
solitary confinement
wing of a prison.
The pernicious use of
solitary confinement
for a nonviolent, low-risk prisoner.
We humans are social animals, for whom
solitary confinement
is a punishment.
They were more likely to develop a strong immune response to a fungus if they were kept in groups than in
solitary confinement
.
Social flies sleep for twice as long as those kept in
solitary confinement
, and they learn more information.
Five days later, these social flies were sleeping for about twice as long as loner flies who were kept in
solitary confinement
.
There he was subjected to
solitary confinement
and other things.
Our commission was troubled to find that overreliance on
solitary confinement
is a hallmark of too many corrections systems today.
British Dictionary definitions for
solitary confinement
solitary confinement
noun
1.
isolation imposed on a prisoner, as by confinement in a special cell