'Welcome To Hell': Life In A Notorious Russian Women's Prison
Feb 24, 2019 · From kittens tossed into blazing furnaces to prisoners losing fingers slaving for hours at sewing machines in a rat-infested sweatshop, IK-14 prison for women in Russia’s central region of...
Corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia - Wikipedia
FKU [nb 1] Corrective Colony No. 2 of the FSIN of Russia for the Republic of Mordovia, [1] or simply IK-2 Yavas, is a women's corrective colony in Russia. [2] It is located near Yavas , Mordovia , about 300 mi (480 km) southeast of Moscow.
What are the conditions in Russia’s penal colonies? Here’s ... - CNN
Nov 10, 2022 · Russian penal colonies are notoriously overcrowded and often see tough restrictions placed on inmates. US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal...
Lonely and Alone: Photos of Life in a Female Penal Colony - VICE
Feb 5, 2016 · She headed to penal colonies in rural Russia to photograph its female inmates: women who exist on the fringes of society and were rejected, forgotten, and invisible.
Portraits of Women Inside Russia’s Modern Gulags - VICE
Apr 4, 2019 · Russia has a long history of using both female and male prisoners for free labour. Today these “corrective colonies” are direct descendants of the Gulag labor camps of the 1930s, and have...
What It’s Like Inside the Penal Colony Brittney Griner Was ... - VICE
Nov 18, 2022 · After two weeks of radio silence from Russian officials regarding Brittney Griner’s transfer to an unnamed labor camp, her attorneys confirmed on Thursday that the WNBA player turned Russian...
What Brittney Griner likely faced in Russian penal colony - NBC News
Oct 26, 2022 · Brittney Griner likely entered a system of isolation, grueling labor and psychological torment when she was transferred to a penal colony, the successor to the infamous Russian gulag, former...
The brutal treatment of women in Russian prisons
Apr 18, 2018 · Nearly 50,000 women are serving time in Russia’s harsh penitentiary system. Living conditions are often inhumane. According to the latest official data, 617,191 people are currently housed in Russian prisons, penal colonies, …
What awaits Brittney Griner in Russian penal colony? - BBC
Nov 17, 2022 · US basketball player Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony in a remote region south-east of Moscow to serve a nine-year jail term for illegal drug possession.
Dual national freed in U.S.-Russia prisoner swap : NPR
4 days ago · The reason: Karelina had donated just over $50 to a U.S.-based Ukrainian aid charity, on February 24, 2022, the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Prosecutors accused her of ...