What does it mean to be 'sequestered'?

What does it mean to be 'sequestered'?

Sometimes if it's a very sensitive case or if it's a case that's had a lot of publicity and you're serving on the jury, they sequester the jury, they will not let you go home at night, they'll put you up in a hotel, they'll have your meals delivered or they'll clear the restaurant out so you can go have pizza somewhere but they will keep you from all media and they don't want you talk to anybody, they'll take the TVs out of your room and when they do that, that's sequestering a jury because they don't want you to get information from any other source, usually it's in some kind of a volatile case where there's a lot of media discussion and a lot of people are making a lot of assumptions or putting forth hypotheses about the case. They want you as a juror to rely upon the evidence that's been presented in the courtroom and not be tainted or swayed or influenced by all this other stuff that the media and we know the media does this, this is how they get their ratings and sell their papers or whatever, so sequestering is usually done for a very, very good reason.