重じゅう屏へい禁きん

noun

solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (up to one week)

A severe disciplinary punishment in Japanese prisons, involving isolation in a dark, bare cell for up to seven days.

• 重じゅう屏へい禁きんは、刑けい務む所しょ内ないで最もっとも厳きびしい懲ちょう罰ばつの一ひとつとされている。

  Solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding is considered one of the harshest punishments within prisons.