Confinement in example sentence

How soon have those same eyes, deeply sunken in the head, glared from faces wasted with famine, and sallow from confinement, in days when it was no figure of speech to say that debtors rotted in prison, with no hope of release, and no prospect of liberty!

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Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills.

I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement.

And because of my activity, I landed in solitary confinement for seven and a half years out of my incarceration.

Now as I see it, solitary confinement is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places you can find yourself, but find myself I did.

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