solitary confinement
noun
: the state of being kept alone in a prison cell away from other prisoners
He spent three months in solitary confinement.
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Their son Nick, 32, was then arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder; he is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility, where, a police source told PEOPLE, he was put on suicide watch in solitary confinement.
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Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
No recess is the elementary-school equivalent of solitary confinement.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Prison critics call supermax facilities, with their frequent solitary confinement, excessively inhumane.
—Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
During his five years in custody, much of it in solitary confinement, Lai has been convicted of several lesser offenses and appears to have grown more frail and thinner.
—CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
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Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
No recess is the elementary-school equivalent of solitary confinement.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Prison critics call supermax facilities, with their frequent solitary confinement, excessively inhumane.
—Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
During his five years in custody, much of it in solitary confinement, Lai has been convicted of several lesser offenses and appears to have grown more frail and thinner.
—CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for solitary confinement
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“Solitary confinement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solitary%20confinement. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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