Solitary Confinement
Definition
The confinement of a prisoner for 22 hours or more a day without meaningful human contact; the Nelson Mandela Rules cap it at a maximum of 15 consecutive days and ban it outright for certain groups.
Related terms
- Nelson Mandela Rules
- The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, revised and renamed by the UN General Assembly in December 2015,...
- Non-Custodial Measures
- Sentences or pre-trial measures that do not involve imprisonment, such as probation, community service, suspended sentences, fines and diversion, the subject of...
- Soft Law
- A standard adopted by an international body, such as a General Assembly resolution, that carries persuasive and interpretive weight but is not...
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- The original 1955 instrument on prison conditions, adopted at the First UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of...
- Tokyo Rules
- The UN Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures, adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 45/110 in 1990, setting safeguards for probation, community...