Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care – such are the conditions awaiting US basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence
. It’s a world familiar to Maria Alyokhina, a member of feminist art ensemble Pussy Riot who spent nearly two years as an inmate for her part in a 2012 punk protest in a Moscow cathedral against President Vladimir Putin. The first thing to understand, Alyokhina said in an interview, is that a penal colony is no ordinary prison. “This is not a building with cells.
For example, they load sacks of flour for a prison bakery or unload mountains of coal,” she said. Prisoners could face punishment for inexplicable “offenses” such as placing a wristwatch on a bedside table. The ultimate sanction was solitary confinement, known as “the Vatican.” “Just as the Vatican is a state within a state, solitary confinement is a prison within a prison,” Yelena said. A gynecologist paid a monthly visit to her colony, where more than 800 women were imprisoned.
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