And on the lighter side of the news, remember anti-anthem, drug smuggler Brittney Griner? She’s been in jail in Russia since February. Now Griner being transported to a dreaded penal colony, aka “forced labor camp,” with potentially hellish conditions. Oh well…
Let this be a lesson to other country hating Americans. If you are going to pop off to Russia, don’t smuggle drugs. You could end up in a hard labor camp.
It just gets worse for woke WNBA all-star Brittney Griner. Imprisoned in Russia since February for drug smuggling, she’s now being transported to a dreaded penal colony, aka “forced labor camp,” with potentially hellish conditions. Someday, the anthem protester will return home to the United States and hopefully with a new appreciation for the country she loathed.
Griner was nabbed by Moscow police in February while trying to board a plane with vape cartridges containing cannabis. She was jailed, convicted, sentenced to nine years of prison and has exhausted her appeals. CNN reported this morning that “the process of taking a person to a penal colony is conducted in secrecy in Russia, with relatives and lawyers often unaware of where a prisoner is being sent for several days, according to Amnesty International.”
Russia has more than 800 penal colonies. Inmates live in barracks and are frequently (but not automatically) forced into labor, according to the Centre for Eastern Studies, in Poland. One would not wish this experience on your worst enemies. Many of the camps date back to the Soviet Union and are likened to Soviet-era gulags: “tough prison camps that expanded across the region during Joseph Stalin’s rule in the mid-20th century,” CNN reports.