The word 'incommunicado' is correct and usable in written English.
It means being unable or not allowed to communicate with others. Example: The prisoner was placed incommunicado for a week as punishment for attempting to escape. I was so focused on my work that I remained incommunicado all day and didn't even check my phone.
A day after the Guardian exposed the first in a series of allegations of incommunicado detention and abuse at the Chicago police facility known as Homan Square, Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin sent a letter to the US Department of Justice.
But he vividly recalls being taken to Homan Square, a warehouse used by the Chicago police for incommunicado detentions, where police inserted something into his rectum.
The organized crime unit, according to its website, is tasked with confronting illegal narcotics, gang activity and vice in Chicago, operations that numerous people formerly held at Homan Square believe led to their incommunicado detentions there.
An official later announced that the next session would be on 8 January, and said Morsi would be sent to prison instead of being held incommunicado in a military facility.
The Guardian exposed a series of incommunicado detention and abuse at the Chicago police facility, including people being held for extensive periods of time without public notifications to their families or access to attorneys.
Rahm Emanuel's challenger in a runoff election that has the Chicago mayor fighting for his political life called allegations of incommunicado detention at the police facility Homan Square "troubling" and suggested an independent investigation was under way.
It says detainees are held incommunicado in extremely overcrowded, unventilated cells without sanitary facilities and with little food or water.
But a retired Washington DC homicide detective, James Trainum, could not think of another circumstance nationwide where police held people incommunicado for extended periods.
More controversially for Americans, two American citizens, José Padilla (the alleged "dirty bomber") and Yaser Hamdi, captured in Afghanistan, have been declared enemy combatants and held incommunicado without trial for over a year.
Such officials are whisked away by its discipline-enforcers and held incommunicado at centres such as the one in Huaibei.
Inmates are held incommunicado, without visits, food parcels, letters or radio.
