Human rights framework for restraint
Example: Isolation may be enforced by locking a door or using a door the person cannot open themselves, or otherwise preventing them from leaving an area, for example, by the use or threat of force. Enforced isolation is therefore restraint, but it may be described as seclusion, segregation, separation, time out or solitary confinement.
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