Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal colony, her lawyers revealed. The conditions are grim. 'For 100 women, there are like three toilets and no hot water,' a Pussy Riot member told NPR. 'This is a legal slavery system.'
"Of course it has a bit better conditions than [the] original gulag system from the 1950s," says Alyokhina, reached by NPR on tour in the United Kingdom."But the sense is the same. It is a labor camp."
"For 100 women, there are like three toilets and no hot water," says Alyokhina. Bathing is a once-a-week occurrence."This is a really terrible institution which we received from [the] Soviet Union and it's totally inhuman. The cynical thing is, the work the state provides to the prisoners is sewing uniforms for Russian police and the Russian army," she says.
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