Sentence examples for virtual confinement from inspiring English sources

Derided in Versailles as "the Polack," she lived in virtual confinement since nobody could be bothered to speak to her.

Her only alternative: a brain-altering technology developed by Ko that makes possible "virtual confinement," an experimental program designed to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

When it's over, Jackal finds refuge in a community of other virtual confinement survivors, all damaged and frightened and dangerous, yet bound together in a kind of self-help group from hell.

Even though its plotting is a bit far-fetched, this 2002 science-fiction thriller about a privileged young woman sentenced to eight years of high-tech "virtual confinement" inside her own head impressed our reviewer, Gerald Jonas.

Weary of his newfound notoriety, he imposed virtual solitary confinement on himself for the first four months.

Sentenced in 1992, John J. Gotti is serving a life sentence in virtual solitary confinement at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill.

Six years of virtual solitary confinement, he said, is enough for someone who was not much older than a child when he was taken into custody.

From 1992 until 2000, Mr. Gotti was kept in virtual solitary confinement, restricted to his cell except for an hour of daily exercise.

Inspectors visiting the private prison, run by Sodexo Justice Services, in April last year, were shocked to discover a woman had languished in a segregation unit – where prisoners are held in virtual solitary confinement – for more than five years.

After six years, in 1969, as the effects of virtual solitary confinement without end began to take its toll, he was released and banished to the town of Kimberley.

A man facing trial on charges of taking part in a terror conspiracy with Osama bin Laden is in virtual solitary confinement and almost completely unable to leave his cell after the attack on the World Trade Center, his lawyer told a federal judge in Manhattan yesterday.