Sentence examples for whose confinement from inspiring English sources

This is Melanie (arresting newcomer Sennia Nanua), one of several similarly shackled children whose confinement seems inexplicable – until one of them tries to bite the forearm of Paddy Considine's military martinet Sergeant Eddie Parks.

In the 20th century the underground cells, chilly even on a warm summer's day, were used to hold prisoners considered vulnerable, including sex offenders, whose confinement was as cut off from the rest of the life of the prison as the Victorians.

If she were playing someone whose confinement was fresh, Larson would require a big performance, full of panic and anguish.

Judi Chamberlin, whose involuntary confinement in a mental hospital in the 1960s propelled her into a lifelong leading role in the movement to guarantee basic human rights to psychiatric patients, died on Jan . 16at her home in Arlington, Mass.

He had been one of the "Angola 3," convicts whose solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, an 18,000-acre prison farm on the site of a former plantation, became a rallying point for advocates fighting abusive prison conditions around the world.

What she finds is another sort of confinement, whose freedoms enable her to indulge her most self-damaging proclivities.

BEIJING — The Chinese authorities are reported to be investigating a Chinese billionaire described as an associate of Bo Xilai, the high-ranking Communist Party official whose dismissal and confinement last month laid bare a split among the nation's leadership elite.

James Ridgeway has been collecting the stories of prisoners whose lives under solitary confinement are usually shielded from public view.

Dolores Canales of California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC), whose son Johnny has spent 14 years in isolation, said: "Everywhere you go in California there are commercials about happy cows, cage-free eggs and humane standards – and yet our prisons are dehumanising.

But weeks after Mr. Clements's killing, investigators are still trying to sort out whether the death was in fact a gang-ordered hit or the act of a lone gunman whose years in solitary confinement may have nurtured paranoia and a hatred of prison officials.

One of the "Angola 3," whose long-term solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola became a cause celebre for prison reform advocates, Wallace died of complications of liver cancer Friday in New Orleans, his attorneys said.