- close confinement
- Such custody of a prisoner as will safely secure him. Rooney v North Dakota, 196 US 319, 49 L Ed 494, 25 S Ct 264. See solitary confinement.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
close confinement
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