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Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

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Exhausting guide labor, negative hygiene and lack of get admission to scientific care - these are the stipulations US basketball megastar Brittney Greener confronted in the final week after she misplaced her enchantment towards a nine-year drug sentence in a Russian penal colony.

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Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

It's acquainted to Maria Alyokhina, a member of the feminist artwork crew Pussy Riot who was once imprisoned for almost two years for her phase in a 2012 punk protest in opposition to President Vladimir Putin at a Moscow cathedral.

The first component to understand, Alyokhina stated in an interview, is that a penal colony is no longer a regular prison.

"It's now not a construct with cells. It appears like a peculiar village, like a Gulag labor camp," he said, referring to the large penal community mounted through Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to isolate and crush prisoners.

“It is certainly a labor camp due to the fact that by means of regulation all prisoners must work. What is atypical about this work is that the prisoners normally sew police uniforms and uniforms for the Russian army, nearly besides pay."

Brittany Griner

Brittany Griner faces a bleak lifestyles in a Russian penal colony

She said she was paid about 1,000 roubles ($16) a month for toiling 10-12 hours a day in a sewing workshop.

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Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

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Exhausting guide labor, negative hygiene and lack of get admission to scientific care - these are the stipulations US basketball megastar Brittney Greener confronted in the final week after she misplaced her enchantment towards a nine-year drug sentence in a Russian penal colony.