General Provisions
Solitary confinement cannot exceed 14 days at a time, with gaps between periods at least as long as the confinement itself - and for sentences over 3 months, solitary confinement cannot exceed 7 days in any single month of the total imprisonment, again with equivalent gaps required.
This prevents solitary confinement from being served all at once in one harsh block - it must be broken into short stretches (no more than 14 days, or 7 days for longer sentences) with mandatory recovery gaps in between, reflecting recognition of solitary confinement's serious psychological toll.
Even where a court has ordered several months of total solitary confinement across a long sentence, this section prevents that time from being served as one continuous multi-month stretch - it must be broken up with enforced gaps.