26 Nov 2022 11:21 pm
TB7 » 17 Nov 2022, 7:59 am » wrote: ↑ Brittney Griner will enter a system of isolation, grueling labor and psychological torment when she is transferred to a penal colony, the successor to the infamous Russian gulag, to fulfill a nine-year sentence handed down Tuesday in Moscow, former prisoners and advocates said.
“Conditions in prisons and detention centers varied but were often harsh and life threatening,” a 2021 State Department report on Russian human rights abuses said. “Overcrowding, abuse by guards and inmates, limited access to health care, food shortages, and inadequate sanitation were common in prisons, penal colonies, and other detention facilities.”
“Russian prisons are grim, even relative to prisons in other countries. And the Putin regime has ramped up hostility towards gays and lesbians as part of its broader policy of hard-line nationalism,” said Muriel Atkin, a Russian history professor at George Washington University.
Isolation, torment and grueling labor: What Brittney Griner can expect in Russia's penal colonies (nbcnews.com)
She's getting what she deserves nothing more . . . nothing less !
""""2021 State Department report"""" . . . maybe they should first look at US prisons first !
Or European ones !