Limit of solitary confinement
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Summary
Solitary confinement cannot exceed 14 days at a time, and the gap between such periods must be at least as long as each period. If the overall imprisonment is more than three months, solitary is further limited to no more than seven days in any one month, with the same requirement about intervals.
Example
Ravi, a shopkeeper, is sentenced to six months' imprisonment with orders for periodic solitary confinement. No single solitary spell can exceed 14 days, and because his term is over three months he cannot be held in solitary for more than seven days in any one month; breaks must be at least as long as each solitary period.
Bare Act
Enacted textIn executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.
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