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DOI: <\/strong>10.46340\/eppd.2026.13.2.1<\/a><\/p>\n

Dmytro Yagunov, Attorney at Law, D.Sc. in Political Science, Ph.D. in Public Administration, MSSc in Criminal Justice, Associate Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine<\/strong>
\nEberhard Karls University, Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University<\/em><\/p>\n

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How to cite: <\/em><\/strong>Yagunov, D. (2025). The Punitive Cell: Solitary Confinement at the Intersection of Criminology, Law, and Human Rights. Evropsk\u00fd politick\u00fd a pr\u00e1vn\u00ed diskurz, 13, 2,<\/em> 5-44. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.46340\/eppd.2026.13.2.1<\/a><\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solitary confinement \u2013 the isolation of a prisoner from meaningful human contact for twenty-two or more hours per day \u2013 remains one of the most institutionally resilient practices in contemporary penology. This article proceeds from a methodological repositioning: the question of whether solitary confinement is harmful has been definitively resolved. Its destructive impact upon physical and mental health, its failure to achieve any declared penological objective, and its role in provoking self-harm, suicide, and psychological disintegration constitute an empirical axiom. The central inquiry shifts to the structural: why, despite more than a century of clinical and criminological evidence, does solitary confinement remain embedded in prison systems worldwide?<\/p>\n

The article integrates doctrinal analysis of ECtHR jurisprudence and CPT standards and reports, empirical synthesis across criminology and psychiatry, comparative legislative analysis across multiple jurisdictions, and critical-theoretical interpretation drawing on Foucault, Cohen, and Bauman. It reconstructs the normative architecture governing isolation \u2013 including the CPT\u2019s PLANN framework and the doctrinal arc from Ramirez Sanchez v. France (2006) to the structural incompatibility principle in Schmidt and \u0160migol v. Estonia (2023) \u2013 situating this within the logic of carceral power.<\/p>\n

Three undeclared functions sustain the practice: neutralisation of surplus populations, disciplinary terror as a mechanism of internal governance, and symbolic affirmation of state sovereignty. The article also analyses terminological substitution as a structural evasion mechanism, informal prison hierarchies in post-Soviet and comparable systems, and the political economy of punishment as an obstacle to reform. It concludes that solitary confinement persists not because it is effective, but because it is institutionally convenient \u2013 as a disciplinary instrument, a political symbol, and a substitute for systemic reform deferred by resource constraints and electoral calculation.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong><\/em> solitary confinement, isolation in detention, penology, carceral state, social control, informal prison hierarchies, vulnerable populations, recidivism, political economy of punishment, prison reform.<\/p>\n

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