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I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
Mary Roach

Meaning of "solitary confinement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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Solitary confinement is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOLITARY CONFINEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff. It is sometimes employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner and has been cited as an additional measure of protection from the inmate. This form of punishment is also given for violations of prison regulations. It is also used as a form of protective custody and to implement a suicide watch. Solitary confinement is colloquially referred to in American English as "the hotbox", "the hole", "lockdown", "punk city", "SCU", "AdSeg", the "SHU" —an acronym for "special housing unit" or "security housing unit", or "the pound"; and in British English as "the block" or "the cooler". In Canada they are known as a Special Handling Unit.

Definition of solitary confinement in the English dictionary

The definition of solitary confinement in the dictionary is isolation imposed on a prisoner, as by confinement in a special cell.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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Synonyms and antonyms of solitary confinement in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «solitary confinement» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

Find out the translation of solitary confinement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of solitary confinement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «solitary confinement» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

禁闭
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confinamiento solitario
570 millions of speakers

English

solitary confinement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एकान्त कारावास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحبس الانفرادي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

одиночное заключение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

solitária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্জন কারাবাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

régime cellulaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengasingan bersendirian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Isolation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

独房監禁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독방
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngurung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự giam cầm nơi vắng vẻ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனிமை சிறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकांतवासात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hücre hapsi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

isolamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odosobnieniem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

одиночне ув´язнення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

izolare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απομόνωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eensame opsluiting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

isoleringscell
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

isolat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of solitary confinement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOLITARY CONFINEMENT»

The term «solitary confinement» is regularly used and occupies the 72.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOLITARY CONFINEMENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about solitary confinement

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5 QUOTES WITH «SOLITARY CONFINEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word solitary confinement.
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Billie Holiday
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
2
Emmeline Pankhurst
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
3
Mary Roach
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
4
Jules Verne
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
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Tennessee Williams
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOLITARY CONFINEMENT»

Discover the use of solitary confinement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to solitary confinement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum ...
The inside look at supermax confinement alone is worth the price of admission, and the prose sometimes verges on poetry. This is meticulous scholarship."--Hans Toch, author of Living in Prison
Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes, 2004
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Solitary Fitness - You Don't Need a Fancy Gym or Expensive ...
Now, in this no-nonsense guide to getting fit and staying fit, he reveals just how he's done it.
Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards, 2007
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A Defence of the System of Solitary Confinement of Prisoners ...
out of more than 400 convicts, only 4 were in solitary confinement, and from 1823 , when the principle of solitary confinement, day and night, without labour, was abandoned at Auburn, the proportion has been nearly the same." From the ...
George Washington Smith, 1833
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A Solitary Confinement
Robin Sheppard. meal, placed close enough to my chin to get the food in without dropping too much on the floor. And so the list went on. A phalanx of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, care workers and busybodies ...
Robin Sheppard, 2007
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Solitary Confinement
Jimmy Tarrant. computer? Did one of my children get up during the night to go to the bathroom and quietly peep into my study to see what daddy was doing? After shutting down the computer, he goes down the hall and collapses in bed for a ...
Jimmy Tarrant, 2009
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A Defence of the System of Solitary Confinement of Prisoners ...
33, is that of “ Mr. William Bridle, governor of the jail at Ilchester for eleven years; having been asked whether a short period of solitary confinement was not sufficient to subdue the most refractory prisoners, replied, “it may in many cases, but I ...
George Washington Smith, 1833
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The Secrets of Alcatraz
The tight security also helped maintain discipline among the inmates. Even in Alcatraz,however,there were inmates who refused to play by the rules. When that happened, the prisoners were placed in cell block D—solitary confinement.
Susan Sloate, 2008
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Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons ...
The compromise of 1869 consisted of a statutory clause permitting the prisoner to spend part or all of his sentence in solitary confinement. More than twenty-five years after such a law had been expected to come into effect, it had finally ...
Norbert Finzsch, Robert Jütte, 2003
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy
One witness says, " He thinks whipping is more degrading than solitary confinement." " Time is lost in consequence of solitary confinement. " If he had a brother in prison, he would prefer that he should receive stripes as a punishment, rather ...
‎1850
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Inside Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Practices and ...
There is not much difference between confinement of prisoners in American-style solitary confinement and confinement of animals in cages. except that in zoos the captives receive individualized humane treatment and their living quarters are ...
Bayard Marin, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOLITARY CONFINEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term solitary confinement is used in the context of the following news items.
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Captured New York Prisoner Held in Solitary Confinement
David Sweat, who was captured and returned to prison after his daring escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, is now being held in solitary confinement. «TIME, Jul 15»
2
Court bars release of US prisoner who spent four decades in solitary
Woodfox is believed to have spent more time in solitary confinement than nearly any other prisoner in U.S. penal history, mostly in Louisiana's infamous Angola ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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From Solitary To The Streets: Released Inmates Get Little Help
In prison, Brian Nelson lived in solitary confinement. That meant 23 hours a day in a small cell. No human contact, except with guards — for 12 years straight. «NPR, Jun 15»
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Angola Three's Robert King looks back on 30 years of solitary
Robert King says he watched nearly three decades of his life fade away in solitary confinement inside Louisiana's Angola prison, sometimes glimpsing the world ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
Humans go to court to free chimps from 'solitary confinement'
“They're essentially in solitary confinement,” Wise told the judge before a crowd of about 100 people packed into the Manhattan courthouse's ceremonial ... «Press Herald, May 15»
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Teen Was Kept In Solitary Confinement For 143 Days Before Even …
A federal review conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice found that Baltimore City Detention Center was illegally putting teens in psychologically damaging ... «ThinkProgress, Mar 15»
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Report says thousands in Texas still languish in solitary confinement
More than 6,500 Texas prisoners are languishing in solitary confinement, including many who have not misbehaved or suffer from mental illness, according to a ... «Los Angeles Times, Feb 15»
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John Howard Society, BCCLA sue Ottawa over solitary confinement
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada have filed a lawsuit against the federal government's use of solitary confinement in ... «CBC.ca, Jan 15»
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Rikers to Ban Isolation for Inmates 21 and Younger
New York City officials agreed on Tuesday to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
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The Box: A teen's horrifying tale of solitary confinement at Rikers
Every year, thousands of teens are held in solitary confinement in jails, prisons and juvenile halls nationwide. This is the story of Ismael “Izzy” Nazario and the ... «Fusion, Dec 14»

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