Exclusive: Brittney Griner taken to penal colony in Russia's Mordovia region
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been taken to a penal colony in the Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said, confirming an earlier Reuters report.www.reuters.com
I am very sympathetic to Brittany,although I do think the USA would be more credible if we admitted she broke the law. BUT! The United states has some of the worse prisons in the world. Barbaric torture, sadistic guards, brutal gang rapes, etc, etc….all with a degree of consent from the government. Doesn’t have to be that way. Look at Norway. or juvenile prisons with individual showers, etc….Americans frequently enough kill themselves rsther thsn bear the sentence in our terror filled prisons. And rehabilitation here is a joke. So we have no business condemning prisons till we decide to clean up our own. Signed, former prison tutor and volunteerBrittney 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.
What Brittney Griner likely faced in Russian penal colony
Like the Soviet gulag system they replaced, the prisons "were often harsh and life threatening,” a 2021 State Department report on Russian human rights abuses said.www.nbcnews.com
Human rights violations are a regular feature of many of the camps, according to the U.S. State Department, human rights groups and others who have maintained regular contact with prisoners in Russia. That the WNBA star, who lost her appeal Tuesday, is a gay Black woman could add unknown variables to a penal system that is known to be remote and harrowing.
“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.”...
I forgot one. In our prisons young attractive heterosexual males are often sold, literally sold, to other men for sex (repeated rape) and “owned” (slavery) and the guards often, not always, are fully aware of this.
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I don’t know that people “support” Brittney being imprisoned in Russia, but there are other Americans imprisoned in Russia, longer than Brittney. I don’t think she should be given special attention from our government over the other Americans. We should advocate to have all Americans who are currently serving sentences in Russia brought home.
Well said...MOO
I don't 'support' her being in prison (as in, I'm so happy she's there), but really, if you are going to travel to another country, know their laws. If you don't understand what you read, ask someone. She certainly could have asked her lawyer. If you can't be bothered to do that, you have no one else to blame if it goes south on you.
I don't think anything can do much for Brittney to be honest.....
Not in this country. and its sad.
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