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Confinement in sentence

114 examples of Confinement in a sentence

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.
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.
When I was on Rikers Island, the huge thing was solitary confinement.
Solitary confinement was originally designed to break a person mentally, physically and emotionally.
The U.S. Attorney General recently released a report stating that they're going to ban solitary confinement in New York state for teens.
One thing that kept me sane while I was in solitary confinement was reading.
You take loneliness, you take depression, you take confinement, and you add to that, rolled up in a little white sheet of paper, one of the most potent neurostimulants that we know, called nicotine, and you add to that one of the most potent addictive substances that you know, and you have a pro-carcinogenic environment.
CMUs aren't solitary confinement, but they radically restrict all of these to levels that meet or exceed the most extreme prisons in the United States.
Facts like prisoners in the US can be kept in solitary confinement cells that are smaller than the size of an average parking space.
Once again, I wound up in solitary confinement for stabbing another prisoner nearly 30 times.
It was a bit like finishing a marathon and getting out of solitary confinement and winning an Oscar all rolled into one.
This is Mr. Lopez, who has been in solitary confinement for 18 months, and he's providing input on the types of images that he believes would make him and his fellow inmates more serene, more calm, less apt to violence.
I have worked on campaigns that released hundreds of people out of solitary confinement, reformed a corrupt police department, changed federal hate crimes policy.
Once he got into jail he was so uncontrollable he spent most of his time in solitary confinement or in the prison hospital.
He killed another person in jail not because of the solitary confinement which ended over a year before the murder.
Perhaps he was an enemy alien and wanted revenge upon the Americans for his confinement.
I'd much prefer being locked into solitary confinement, or having to watch paint dry on a wall, though.
In addition, the confinement of shooting a film for TV makes reduces the options of how the shots are framed and focused.
The movie staging was awkward (like a play, rather, and that feeling of confinement does NOT work well on film).
Ahmad is ruler again and plans to wed his Princess; but when he tries to make Abu his vizier, the young thief refuses, saying that what he wants is adventure, not hard work and confinement in a palace however grand it may be.
This movie should be shown to prison inmates in solitary confinement.
After running around corridors for an hour and a half, being put in solitary confinement (although allowed out to have sex, because sweet mercy that's what being Jean Claude Van Damme is about) Burke suddenly finds out inmates are being killed and their organs removed, not in some event relating last hour's worth of clues he'd been gathering but because the guards left a surgical saw conveniently next to their big suspicious medical cabinet.
A week in solitary confinement would be preferable to the torture one endures during the 88 minutes of this stinker.
One can never forget the desperate attempts at surviving the solitary confinement portrayed by the vastly talented Steve McQueen.
Their punishment: confinement in a large underground facility that monitors the inmates right down to their thoughts.
Her main concern during her confinement seems to be how to foil the ankle device, not thinking about her screwed-up life, or how to clear her name.
Although at times, he just acted as McQueen, he did a wonderful job expressing suffering in the solitary confinement scene, and great towards the end of the movie.
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