page_title: Padded cell
hierarchical_section_title: Padded cell
caption_attribution_description: The punishment room at Woking Convict Invalid Prison. The woman stands alone in a padded cell with her arms outstretched and her fists clenched. Iconographic Collections
context_page_description: A padded cell is a cell in a psychiatric hospital with cushions lining the walls. The padding is an attempt to prevent patients from hurting themselves by hitting their head on the hard surface of the walls. In most cases, an individual's placement in a padded cell is involuntary.
  Other names used are "rubber room", seclusion room, time out room, calming room, quiet room, or personal safety room.
context_section_description: A padded cell is a cell in a psychiatric hospital with cushions lining the walls. The padding is an attempt to prevent patients from hurting themselves by hitting their head (or other bodily parts) on the hard surface of the walls.  In most cases, an individual's placement in a padded cell is involuntary.
  Other names used are "rubber room", seclusion room, time out room, calming room, quiet room, or personal safety room.
caption: A woman in a padded cell, 1889
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