Sentence examples for confinement punishment from inspiring English sources

A few days after he spoke with the Guardian, Mendoza and 19 other inmates were transferred to solitary confinement – punishment, activists said, for a renewed hunger strike.

Year after year of solitary confinement, punishment imposed for endlessly angrily asserting his innocence, movement without notice from prison to prison, often just when his mother was using her one week's holiday to visit her husband and her son at different ends of England, humiliation, degradation and fear nevertheless fuelled an insistence that he could and would take charge of his own fate.

In Guantánamo, he is still confined to a 6ft by 8ft windowless cell, forced into solitary confinement – his punishment for being "noncompliant".

The years in prison that the law promises with so much generosity must be viewed with a consternation that goes beyond the fear of confinement and punishment.

Detainees can be held in confinement for punishment for an offence committed while in detention, or for regression; a regime used for the "good order and security" of the prison.

A12 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Rowland Is Sentenced To 1 Year for Conspiracy Former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and four months of home confinement, a punishment ordered after the fallen Republican star pleaded guilty in December to a felony conspiracy charge that he accepted $107,000 in gifts and did not pay taxes on them.

After taking a wrong turn, a guard wrote him up with a two month stint in solitary confinement as punishment.

As part of the proposed settlement, the county probation department has agreed to no longer use room confinement for punishment, discipline or expedience.

I believed that by failing to lose weight, I was sentencing myself to a lifetime of solitary confinement as punishment for my pathetic lack of willpower.

Another woman known as A.E. in the complaint said a guard threatened her and others with solitary confinement as punishment for constant crying.

In January, the Department of Corrections announced that it would end the use of solitary confinement as punishment for mentally ill prisoners and instead house that population in special treatment units, according to the New York Times.