In the past, inmates usually just got time in special confinement wards for such behavior, but Mr. Kerik began pushing to prosecute them for new crimes in these cases.
Emerging soon after, supermax prisons modeled themselves on this approach to confinement, while other correctional facilities constructed solitary confinement wards.
A few days later, when I was transferred from solitary confinement to ward 325, I got a glimpse of what happened.
There are moments when Ms. Gusman, who physically resembles a less perfect Angelina Jolie, recalls Ms. Jolie's character in "Changeling," a woman who endures a nightmarish confinement in a mental ward.
When Lauveng is institutionalised, we also get a vivid idea of her initial resistance to much of the treatment: the morning workouts, the confinement to an isolation ward, the meaningless tasks that, at one point, involve her in routinely rolling earplugs.
I went on a hunger strike so they locked me in solitary confinement in a psychiatric ward and force-fed me raw eggs through a tube down my throat.
The control patients were selected according to the following criteria: 1) age (±5 years compared to the matched case), 2) date of admission (±2 weeks relative to the matched case), 3) confinement in the same ward as the case, and 4) underlying medical conditions similar to those of the matched case, and free of nosocomial infections.
If there's one thing above others that English letters can do without, it's another dreary account of the horrors of an expensive private British education, the indelible scars that a neo-fascist regime of corporal punishment and single-sex confinement inflicts upon its wards, and the warping effect of all this on the body psychic of the British ruling classes down the ages.
He was in a single ward, like solitary confinement.
Xu Lindong's confinement in a locked mental ward was all the more notable, his brother says, for one extraordinary fact: he was not the least bit deranged.
