Araraukar wrote:El Fiji Grande wrote:You're asking me to OOCly recount what I think solitary means, but I think you know what this proposal is trying to prevent. It requires no stretch of the imagination.
OOC: I'll give you a proposal read-through later, but your definition "Solitary confinement be defined as the confinement of an individual in a location completely isolated from contact with other individuals" currently excludes all RL forms of solitary confinement that I can think of. It might be doable in some FT or PMT dystopian nation, but until you explain OOCly what you're going for, it'll be hard to explain to you how to fix it so it says what you think it says.
Oh dang, you're right. I guess interacting with a prison guard bringing you food for five minutes in one day could be considered contact with another individual.
So then, what I think solitary confinement is (and I'm going to use the IRL definition with humans, and neglect the RP setting of NS while I define this): it's a form of imprisonment where prisoners are moved to a separate cell, and are entirely isolated from human contact with the exception of the prison staff for nearly the entirety of any given day. Sentences are doled out by prison staff, not by the courts, with terms lasting from days to decades, the longest being 41 years. It's referred to as the SHU, the hole, the ice box.
I'll add the prison guard exemption.