Synonyms for solitary confinement
soli·tary con·fine·ment

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1. solitary confinement, solitarynoun

   confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners

   "he was held in solitary"

   Synonyms:
   solitudinarian, hermit, solitary, troglodyte, recluse

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1. solitary confinement

   Read the full text of the Solitary Confinement poem by Frederick William (FW) Harvey on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Brendan Hunt:

   I had a lot of time to think in prison. I've been in prison for three months. A lot of that in solitary confinement, and I had to come to grips with the fact that a lot of my language was very inappropriate, it was irresponsible, careless and immature in a lot of ways.

2. Anthony Kennedy:

   This idea of total incarceration just isn't working and it's not humane, solitary confinement literally drives men mad.

3. Jen Psaki:

   We're deeply concerned by reports that Russia has moved Ms Savchenko to solitary confinement, we understand that Ms Savchenko has been on hunger strike for nearly a month to protest the terms of Ms Savchenko detention and is suffering additional health problems.

4. Trev McKendry:

   Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire. Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations. The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial( about $ 30,000), and now await trial. Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them. I've taken [ spreading the word ] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help.

5. Jeff Dumas:

   It's a bargaining chip for him now, within the department, he's going to be locked into a cell, 23 out of 24 hours a day, in solitary confinement. ... He's going to try to use that chip with New York state so he isn't locked into 23 out of 24 (hours) for an extended period of time.