padded cell

noun

: a room in a mental hospital that has soft walls so that patients cannot hurt themselves

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The main cabin had been converted into a kind of padded cell, lined with soft white tiles in lieu of seats and overhead bins. —

Nicola Twilley, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2020 The suffocating result is a padded cell perfect for Belinda and Solange to exhaust each other — and the audience — as debates about furniture and baby names escalate into fights invoking the Holy Spirit and U.S. Confederacy. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024 While at the jail, Harris was placed in a restraint chair and put in a padded cell. —

Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024 Other allegations include a suicidal child held in a padded cell without a toilet for weeks. —

USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024 Following an attempt at self-harm, she was moved to a padded cell that lacked a bed or working toilet, and urine and feces flooded the sleeping area. —

Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024 An Indiana man with untreated schizophrenia died from multiple organ failure after refusing to eat during a 20-day stint of solitary confinement where he was left naked in a padded cell, a lawsuit alleges. —

Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023 Set designer Rachel Hauck has crafted a space that includes a dressing room with midcentury modern furniture and a soundstage that feels eerily like a padded cell. —

Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023 He was taken to at Jackson County Jail and placed in a padded cell on July 20, 2021. —

Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023