Posted on 10/27/2022 8:00:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.”
The report notes that “physical and sexual abuse by prison guards was systemic,” that torture of prisoners was pervasive — at times resulting in death or suicide — and that discriminatory protections against women and people of color were not often enforced. The law also does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
“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.
The type of penal colony Griner — who was arrested for carrying two cartridges of cannabis oil — will be sent to is most likely a repurposed Soviet gulag, a brutal system of labor camps and prisons that incarcerated millions of people from the 1920s to the 1950s. Prisoners were used for farming, mining or logging in sparsely populated areas of the country or worked in sweatshop conditions.
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Bring on the Boo Hoo girl.
She can rot there!
I don’t wish these gulags on anybody but why is it only news when a celebrity is involved? Millions of regular citizens get ground through the legal system with little to no fanfare for them.
My GAS meter hasn’t budged.
Do the Crime, Do the Time.
One would have to be a special kind of stupid to bring drugs into a foreign country, especially into Russia.
Wait until Biden tells Zalenski that he needs to trade Ukraine for Griner.
It would tough on anybody, it gets cold in Siberia this time of year.
Meanwhile she appeals to the country that she hates to free her and bring her back to the country that she hates so much that made her rich and famous.
No one cares.
Bingo! Let the alphabet sexual group the help her
If conditions get much worse, they would approach those that the J6 martyrs have been living in for almost two years.
just give her a basketball in her cell.
When Russia was Communist, and even after, the leftist journalists thought it was hunky dory. It seems they started hating Russia once they knew they could use Putin as a cat’s paw against then-candidate Trump.
“She” will do just fine in a woman’s prison, once the word gets out that “she” has a functioning penis!
Will it be a men’s or women’s prison?
Don’t bring drugs into Russia, Brittney. It amazes me how many Americans think they can go to foreign countries and not be subject to their laws. Is the law harsh? Yes. But does that mean Americans should be exempted from it? No.
truth
I know that’s an irony of her situation.
She hates how allegedly racist, etc. this country is, but she is eager to have this allegedly rotten country, to save her from a Russian prison.
That would be arrogant-stupid. Very common, but very special.
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