Sentence examples for confinement unit from inspiring English sources

Chauka is a solitary confinement unit inside Manus Island detention centre.

Six other men have been taken into the Chauka solitary confinement unit on more than one occasion.

Begay spent 12 to 16 hours a day alone in an 8-by-8-foot cell in the jail's solitary confinement unit.

The length of time he spent there was just five days shy of the worst disciplinary punishment permitted in the solitary confinement unit for enemy combatants held in Guantánamo Bay.

New York city's department of corrections describes the block as a "completely new type of housing" and maintains the ESH is distinct from a solitary confinement unit as inmates will be allowed a minimum of seven hours outside their cells a day.

Amid escalating tensions inside the Manus Island detention centre, four men have been taken to the notorious "Chauka" solitary confinement unit, two for the second time since July when the men – who say they witnessed the death of Reza Barati – claim they were tied to chairs and beaten.

But about 10,000 inmates remain in solitary confinement units.

While New York has reduced inmate suicide in the last two decades with suicide-proof construction and better monitoring, isolated confinement units undoubtedly lead to inmate deaths.

Anything exceeding 24 hours must be reviewed by an immigration department regional manager, which has led to some being held in confinement units for many weeks.

I studied suicides in New York State's prisons over a six-year period and found that half occurred in solitary confinement units even though just 7percentt of the population was housed there.

The new system is ultimately expected to shrink the number of solitary confinement units in the system, as mentally ill inmates go through the counseling and treatment programs instead, said Linda I. Gibbs, the deputy mayor for health and human services.