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Historians, judges, and sociologists agree that France is witnessing an increase in closed educational centers and penitentiary institutions for minors (epm), with confinement destined to become a solution to crime: a punishment that becomes the rule. How can we understand this frequent use of imprisonment in our time? What are the alternatives to confinement and incarceration? Can we think of the question of confinement as being part of an intimate feeling, of a subjective experience in reverse of a confinement imposed from outside?In an attempt to answer this question, we will first address, very briefly, the issue of punishment by confinement and incarceration while trying to show the etymological and social implications of the notion of punishment. In a second step, we will try to show through three clinical vignettes the way in which confinement can also be thought of as a subjective experience, a singular psychic experience. Finally, through these vignettes, we plan to show how the hospital environment can, at certain moments, relieve the subjective constraint or the impasse felt or experienced by a subject at a given moment. To do this, we will rely on psychoanalytic discourse, which will serve as a compass for the analysis.