isolation cells
Prisoners kept alone
Isolation cells are small, confined spaces in prisons or detention facilities where inmates are held separately from the general population.
Also called solitary confinement, the hole, or segregation units.
Prisoners may be placed in isolation as punishment, for their own protection, or during investigation: He spent three weeks in an isolation cell after the fight.
Critics argue prolonged isolation constitutes psychological torture.
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
- confinementState of being restricted
- paddedFilled with soft material
- prisonConfinement for offenders
segregation · the hole · lockdown · hole · punishment · bread and water · mental · mental health · restraint · silence · sensory deprivation · concrete · steel · door · bars · window · observation · suicide
- Supermax Prisonssolitary confinement, maximum security, lockdown, death row, guard towers
- prison campsconcentration camp, prison camps, labor camp, gulags, internment camp
isolation cellsgeneral population
Average citizens collectively
gen pop · communal housing · open prison · minimum security · common areas
isolation cellscommunal living
Shared domestic arrangement
barracks · group homes · communes · community housing · public spaces
isolation cellsopen spaces
Unoccupied expanses or gaps
public squares · community centers · freedom · liberty · open society
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