Sentence examples for confinement amounts from inspiring English sources

(Manning herself has written about why solitary confinement amounts to torture).

It was a painful step in the grieving process, compounded by the behavior of the killer, Anders Behring Breivik, who complained Friday at his second court appearance that his detention in solitary confinement amounted to "sadistic torture".

They say that conditions there, including solitary confinement, amount to torture, and inhuman and degrading treatment.

Glenn Greenwald has done an excellent job of calling attention to Manning's situation, which has sparked an active debate over whether the conditions of his confinement amount to torture.

Moreover, "[d]epending on the specific reason for its application, conditions, length, effects and other circumstances, solitary confinement can amount to a breach of article seven of the international covenant on civil and political rights, and to an act defined in article one or article 16 of the convention against torture".

Mr. Hamdi's attorney, Frank W. Dunham Jr., said in a filing on Thursday that the prisoner's indefinite detention in solitary confinement in South Carolina amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

In that case, Kansas v. Hendricks, the court said the continued confinement did not amount to double jeopardy because it was for the purpose of treatment and not punishment.

A growing body of evidence suggests that a few weeks of solitary confinement for a prisoner amounts to torture.

The government's coercive confinement of Dr. Lee amounts to pretrial punishment and should end even if bail is again denied.

The experimental variables were the amounts of confinement steel and steel fibers.

The aim of this study is to examine the confinement transverse steel reinforcement amounts required for HSC circular columns part of high-rise buildings.