Brittney Griner Expected To Face ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In Russian Prison

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EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/ Getty Images By Melissa Noel· Updated November 28, 2022

Brittney Griner will reportedly face inhumane conditions at the Russian penal colony where she was recently transferred.

According to The Nation, the WNBA star was transferred to the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, which is known as the “land of prisons,” with the freezing, swampy area of “roughly two dozen massive jails”and locatedabout 250 miles southeast of Moscow.The penal

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