Confinement in example sentence

Before I ever turned 18, I spent approximately 400 days on Rikers Island, and to add to that I spent almost 300 days in solitary confinement, and let me tell you this: Screaming at the top of your lungs all day on your cell door or screaming at the top of your lungs out the window, it gets tiring.

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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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