Sentence examples for confinement units from inspiring English sources

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.

A mass protest which has just entered its second month is playing out in the solitary confinement units of maximum security jails where an estimated 400 prisoners are refusing food to demand an end to what they call inhumane conditions.

Not only do solitary confinement units cost more to build than the average prison, it also costs significantly more to house someone in isolation than it does to hold someone in the general population.

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.