Solitary confinement

The term solitary confinement is defined as any separation of a prisoner from all other prisoners, regardless of where the regulatory body this action is taken.

You can have several reasons:

• In the case of pre-trial detention may be required legally separate accommodation of the inmate be placed ( § 119 para 1 CCP ).
• During the criminal detention in solitary confinement for safety, regulatory or disciplinary action can be arranged. Distinction must be made: Solitary confinement in response to breaches of duty of prisoners ( " arrest "). This is the sharpest prescribed by law disciplinary measure, the duration of which shall not exceed four weeks ( § 103 Section 1 No. 9 Prison Act ).
• Solitary confinement in the narrow technical legal sense, the " incessant discharge of a prisoner " as a special security measure within the meaning of § 88 of the Prison Act. You may at risk of flight, at the risk of violence and suicide risk then be arranged, "if this is indispensable for reasons that are in the person of the prisoner " (§ 89 of the Prison Act ). This form of solitary confinement is not time limited by law, but must, like all other security measures necessary for as long as it its proper objective ( § 88 para 5 of the Prison Act ). In some cases, the solitary confinement is maintained over a period of about 15 years; such as in the prison of Celle.