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Children in Confinement: Seclusion in Schools

Non-carpeted rooms

Concrete Floors with Hard or Padded Walls are Typical for School Seclusion Rooms

The majority of seclusion rooms have beige cinder-block walls, although newer constructed rooms tend to have padded walls. Padded walls help reduce injury when a child is locked inside. Most floors are not carpeted and have concrete slabs for ease of cleaning up bodily fluids.

An adult sits on the floor in a narrow room with two cinder block walls and one plaster wall. The floor is unfinished concrete with white staining. There is a small window towards the top of the wall.
Adult man who is 5 feet 11 inches tall sits in a registered seclusion room with cinder block walls and unfinished concrete floor in Cedar School – Eagan, MN
A small room with white cinder block walls and an unfinished cement floor.
Registered seclusion room with unfinished mottled concrete floor of seclusion room in Hoover Elementary School – Rochester, MN
Inside corner of a room with white cinder block wall and two small windows. The white paint around the window frames is chipping off.
Registered seclusion room with cinder block walls and metal window frames with chipped paint in Isanti Intermediate School – Isanti, MN
A small room with beige cinder block walls. Squares of thin commercial carpet cover only part of the floor, leaving uncovered sections of cement.
Registered seclusion room with cinder block walls with partially concrete and partially carpeted floor in Cedar School – Eagan, MN
Corner of a room with white cinder block walls. The edge of a metal door frame is visible. A smoke detector is on the ceiling, covered by a small grate.
Registered seclusion room with cinder block walls with carpeted floor in Alliance Education Center – Rosemount, MN
A small room with white walls and white flooring. A recessed rectangular fluorescent light and a vent are on the ceiling.
Registered seclusion room with plaster walls and uncarpeted floor in Dakota Ridge School – Apple Valley, MN
An adult sitting on the floor with their back against the wall in a room with blue padded walls.
Adult man who is 5 feet 11 inches tall sits in a registered seclusion room with padded walls with non-carpeted floor in Cedar School – Eagan, MN
An adult stands in the middle of a narrow room with blue padded walls. Their arms are extended out to their side to show scale. Their arm span covers almost the full width of the room with only a few inches of space between their fingertips and the walls.
Adult man who is 5 feet 11 inches tall standing with arms outstretched in a registered seclusion room with added walls with non-carpeted floor in Cedar School – Eagan, MN
A room with blue padded walls and uncarpeted white and gray checkered floors.
Registered seclusion room with padded walls with non-carpeted floor in Bemidji High School – Bemidji, MN
Viewed through a doorway, a small room with padded blue walls and a white un-carpeted floor. The wooden door has an observation window at the top and is wide open.
Registered seclusion room with padded walls with non-carpeted floor in Bemidji Middle School – Bemidji, MN
A dark gray metal door with a small window at the top, gray padded walls, and an uncarpeted floor. An adult looks through the window from the other side of the door. Only their head is visible.
Photograph taken from child’s view while inside a registered seclusion room, looking out to observation window/closed door. An adult man stands outside the closed door looking in. Southwest West Central Service Cooperative – Education Learning Center – New London, MN
Registered seclusion room with padded walls with non-carpeted floor. Southwest West Central Service Cooperative Education Learning Center – New London, MN
Corner of a room with slate gray tile walls and a gray tile floor.
Registered seclusion Room with tiled walls and tiled floor in Brookside Academy – Cambridge, MN