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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What is a woman?
Prison conditions ‘harsh?’ Maybe because she’s got an Adam’s apple and a d!ck?
She should have watched the movie “Midnight Express”
Or in this case, conditioned over years that anything you did was O.K. and you would never be held accountable because you are in a special class, or two.
“Butt, butt, butt I’m special! And, and, and my wife will be all lonely and stuff!”. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. ‘specially in a foreign country. 😭
January 6th Political Prisoners face difficult conditions at substandard Federal Penal Nightmare Prison, former prisoners and peaceful American Citizens say.
Lesson: Do NOT, under any circumstances, carry Marijuana or any paraphernalia with you into Russia.
Is nine years going to be enough for Griner to learn that one singular thing?
No bail on personal recognizance or get out of jail free cards in the Russian Federation.
I spent a lot of time in Mexico when I was a teenager. My best friend's family had a house in Ensenada, and my buddy and I had total freedom. We hitchhiked all over the place.
We pretty much avoided American tourists.
Were they dual citizens? I didn’t think non-Mexican citizens could own property in Mexico?
No sympathy for this America hating dyke. Let her rot.
Yep, Boris Yeltsin was their MAN!
It seems they started hating Russia once they knew they could use Putin as a cat’s paw against then-candidate Trump.
Yep, and the fact that Putin fouled up their plan to steal everything in Eastern Europe.
It is very nice to be a celebrity in America, no doubt about it. You would think they'd have the common sense however to realize that a country like Russia could not possibly care less about their celebrity status.
Sounds like it sucks.
I guess if I were bringing illegal substances to another country, I would check out the rules. I even do that when traveling state to state.
...like the Jan. 6 political prisoners in the District of Criminals re-education camps?
Had “she” been arrested in the U.S., there are a number of cards Griner could have played - the race card, the gender card, the celebrity card, the LGBT card. However, none of those work in Russia.
If any attempt to play those cards made her situation worse!
Perhaps she may realize that the USA isn’t the evil racist place as she was duped to believe.
It could be Russia is being vindictive but I think Griner did more than we have been told
and worst of all.....she won’t be addressed by her preferred pronouns....
About the same chances as waking up tomorrow and the media is no longer liberal biased.
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