Brittney Griner is set to serve time in one of Russia's penal colonies, where abuse is common, disease is rampant, and labor is forced
Direct descendants of the Soviet Union's Gulag system, Russian penal colonies are prison-labor camps notorious for human-rights abuses and corruption.www.yahoo.com
Brittney Griner is finding out the truth...........finally. It was something she was lied about in school and the media, that is, America is the worst country on earth
Brittney Griner is set to serve time in one of Russia's penal colonies, where abuse is common, disease is rampant, and labor is forced
Unless she's released in a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia, Griner will almost certainly spend some time at a Russian penal colony.
Russian penal colonies are prison labor camps that are essentially the remnants of the Soviet Union's infamous Gulag system.
Griner will be sent to one of the 35 or so all-women penal colonies in the country.
Each facility varies in its reputation and treatment of inmates, based on its geographic location and its leadership structure.
Some, like prison colony No. 14 in Mordovia, are notoriously brutal.
Inmates there have been said to live among rats, lose fingers while working 17-hour days at sewing machines, and be forced to watch guards burn kittens alive.
And while other facilities aren't known to be quite as harsh, there are several disturbing commonalities across the penal system.
Dilapidated infrastructure has been known to limit access to running water and heat, especially in more remote locations
Prisoner hygiene is often neglected as a result.
The colonies are severely overcrowded, with most prisoners living in close quarters alongside approximately 50 other people.
Russian law dictates that each inmate have 20 square feet of personal space, but that standard — which is less than the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights — is often not met in Russian facilities
Between prisoners' close proximity to one another and lack of basic hygiene, penal colonies in Russia are known as incubators for epidemics
AIDS, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and other ailments run rampant.
And women in the system are often denied medical care, never mind proper medical care.
Despite criticism that the system resembled Joseph Stalin's Gulags, the Russian government reintroduced forced labor in 2016.
Most women cook, clean, or sew to fulfill this requirement.
And past inmates in all-female Russian penal colonies have said that "voluntary" overtime work is actually mandatory, with guards threatening retribution if they don't sign on to work extra.
As a result, some women are forced to work 16- or 17-hour days with just four hours of sleep each night
Torture is not unheard of at these facilities.
And when it comes to abuse, "even official statistics indicate that it is practiced on a mass scale," according to commentary piece from the Centre for Eastern Studies
But these are all things Griner never learned in public school or the media
No, she was taught America was the most racist and terrible nation on earth, courtesy of AOC and her democrat party.
Clearly you've never been to Baylor University.
You're exceptionally fucked in the head.
