But the remaining four, disoriented and unable to sleep because of harassment, including threatening calls to their cellphones, endured 24 hours of confinement.
My memories of those trips include rummaging around barns and farmhouses in search of antiques, nights at Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons and, especially, the games we played to pass the many hours of confinement in that Buick.
The astronaut returned healthy after nine hours of confinement in a low-gravity environment.
During the hours of solitary confinement, Ahmad busied himself researching his case.
It's not eight hours of screen confinement, nerding on Netflix, pimping interests on Pinterest, feeding frivolities into Facebook or grinding through Gears of War.
The first tier, called "program," results in up to 22 ½ hours of solitary confinement, during which, the suit says, the county's policies illegally permit probation (officials) to withhold education as a punishment or for no reason at all".
One result is the increase of "special housing unit" cells, which confine inmates who violate prison regulations to 23 hours a day of confinement.
The actual periods of confinement for 24 hours a day are entirely arbitrary, and unpredictable..."...
Three months ago he was moved out of the virtual 24-hour solitary confinement of a Supermax prison in Colorado to a less stringent regime in the same complex, but it left a toll on his mind.
Instead, he imposed a sentence of three years' probation, including six months of home confinement, 1,000 hours of community service and a $350,000 fine.
Even with top legal counsel assigned to him on appeal (the guarantee to post conviction counsel is a recent development) he spent 29 years 3 months and 5 days on death row and 23 hours of each one in solitary confinement.
