And it's why I chuckle when
Breslovers wonder why I haven't been to Uman, the Ukraine being similar to as
Russia.
Brittney
Griner’s grim penal colony fate: ‘You’re starved just by the food’
By
CCTV
footage purportedly showing Moscow customs searching a woman they Brittney Griner will
endure merciless conditions inside a Russian penal colony — where rancid food,
extreme isolation and tyrannical wardens await the WNBA star, former Russian
prison inmates, their relatives and penitentiary experts told The Post.
Former US Marine Trevor
Rowdy Reed, who spent nearly 1,000 days detained in Russia, was freed in April in exchange for Konstantin
Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring
to smuggle more than $100 million of cocaine into New York.
Reed was accused of
assaulting two Moscow police officers in August 2019 and spent 11 months in a
pretrial detention center in Moscow until a Russian court meted out a nine-year
sentence in 2020. He was later shipped 350 miles away to a penal colony in the
remote Russian republic of Mordovia, where he survived nine agonizing months until
he was swapped this year.
“You gotta understand,
the labor camps in Mordovia, these are pre-Stalin-era prisons, these were
literally referred to as gulags,” Trevor’s father, Joey Reed, told The Post.
“And even though there’s a federal authority for prisons, each warden has wide
leeway to do whatever they want until it makes someone angry or leads to bad
press.”
Reed, 62, said his son often described a dour, medieval atmosphere inside the penal colony where Trevor, now 31, lived in crude barracks built of brick and sheet metal. He routinely curled up near hot water pipes or piled on extra clothes during frigid nights in the desolate Mordovian plains, where January temps average in the low teens. When guards threatened to forcibly disrobe his son, Trevor threatened them back, his father said.
“They said they would
take them off him and he said, ‘I will take you out trying,’” said Reed, of
Granbury, Texas. “But the guards never beat or abused him because they knew he
was on the trading block.”
“To a certain extent,
you’re starved just by the food that they give you. We didn’t show any public
photos of my son for about a month and a half because he looked like a
concentration camp victim.”
Joey Reed, the father of Trevor
Reed, who served nine months in a Russian penal colony
The defiant Marine vet
wasn’t beaten by jailers for those bold stands, but he did lose about 50 pounds
from his unimposing frame due to the “horrible” food, his father said.
The sparse grub consisted
primarily of potato soup or some kind of fish, which was typically filled with
“crunchy bones” — so foul that even the barracks’ stray cats didn’t eat it,
Reed said.
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https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/barbaric-conditions-await-brittney-griner-at-russian-penal-colony-ex-prisoners/
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