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Definition of Solitary confinement
1. Noun. Confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners. "He was held in solitary"
Definition of Solitary confinement
1. Noun. Forced isolation in a small space and the denial of contact with other persons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solitary Confinement
Literary usage of Solitary confinement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"After the issue of the warrant for execution by the governor, the prisoner shall
be kept in solitary confinement, and the following persons shall be allowed ..."
2. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Effects of solitary confinement without Labour.—Benefits of solitary confinement
with Labour.—The Eastern Penitentiary or State Prison. ..."
3. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"Sage (1896) 1 1 App. Div. 4, 42 NY Supp. 251. solitary confinement.—The jeopardy
provision does not apply where the defendant convicted of murder is kept in ..."
4. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1855)
"The number of days lost by sickness, old age, and bad weather wae 9060 ; by
solitary confinement, 939. Of those admitted during the past year, ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"... with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and,
if a male undor the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping. ..."
6. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"... any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor, and with or
without solitary confinement." Demanding property on forged instruments. By s. ..."
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