Solitary confinement is a punishment as barbarous and as senseless as the thumbscrew or the rack: more so indeed, for it is better to kill the body than to maim the mind.
There are six men, each sentenced to solitary confinement, in a cell together.
They had been made to endure all the horrors of solitary confinement, and had none to solace or to cheer them during the long hours of their melancholy captivity.
On the 12th of December, all the Templars in custody at Lincoln were, by command of the king, brought up to London, and placed in solitary confinement in different prisons and private houses provided by the mayor and sheriffs.
Now, I never gave my imagination vent when in solitary confinement, but arranged my days most systematically, and in this way always bore it very well.
This was the only sound that reached the cells, by day and night, where the condemned remained in solitary confinement.
In the morning, while facing almost certain death, he had been care-free and had scorned it, but toward evening when he was placed in a cell in solitary confinement, he was whirled and carried away by a wave of mad fear.
It is unnecessary to consider here the relation of solitary confinement to insanity.
It must be sufficiently clear that the modern prison, with its monotonous routine of solitary confinement, varied by bad company, is fruitful of nothing but disaster to the prisoner and to the society on which he is set loose.
After four days of solitary confinement I was fast losing all sense of balance and normality.
I ask for my friend back--he condemns me to solitary confinement.
You are not content, then, with your four-and-twenty hours of solitary confinement?
The director, worn out, sentenced him to four-and-twenty hours of solitary confinement, because his prayer was too like a demand.
The prisoners receive no money, and if they are backward in working, or otherwise behave ill, they are subjected to solitary confinement, which soon brings them to their senses.
There were eleven in the hospital, four in solitary confinement, and three invalids.
There are also in the county jail several cells for solitary confinement, narrow dark holes, in which it must be insupportably hot during the summer.
The slip, I saw later, was a piece of paper stating my name and nationality, and marked with a cross which stood for “solitary confinement.
In the long days of solitary confinement, by which I expiated my offense, I sat in judgment upon myself again and again, every time condemning myself for a slacker.
This inhuman punishment was not actually put into effect, but the unfortunates got five months’ and four and a half months’ solitary confinement respectively, and after that indefinite detention in prison.
I did not know, for I flatly refused to believe in solitary confinement to the end of the war--the punishment which had been suggested as in store for unsuccessful escapers.
During the whole of the legal proceedings Georges and the other important prisoners were kept in solitary confinement.
Have the Jew, Gumprecht Mares, arrested, seize his papers, and place him in solitary confinement.
Carbonnet was detained two months in solitary confinement.
We observe that Captain Maconochie confirms, from his own experience, the opinion already expressed by many others upon the policy of solitary confinement.
Could there possibly be a better illustration of the effect of solitary confinement?
It looked now as if I should be found next morning in this office, and get five months' solitary confinement in the cells for trying to escape, and not even have a run for my money.
Of course when I left most of these unfortunates were back in the cells, beginning their five months' stretch of solitary confinement.
We next saw them marched off to cells, where they were to do five months in solitary confinement.
The judge promptly sentenced me to three years' imprisonment in the State Prison, at Charlestown, with hard labor, the first day to be passed in solitary confinement.
I was sick of solitary confinement, and longed to see the faces of men, even prisoners: so I told him if I could get any work I could do I was willing to try it, and would do as well as I knew how.
Then began my twenty-four hours' solitary confinement, and twenty-four wretched hours they were.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solitary confinement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
