For bringing some prescription sleeping pills into prison, he was put in solitary confinement for 71 days.

因为带了一些处方安眠药，他被单独监禁了71天。

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One former prisoner I spoke to, for example, recalled being put in solitary confinement for petty annoyances like refusing to get out of the shower quickly enough.

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Leeson was punished, put in solitary confinement for 31 days.

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He was, therefore, to be put in a "cramped confinement box" and told a stinging insect would be put in the box with him.

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