Brittney Griner's legal efforts to escape a nine-year drug sentence in a Russian penal colony have been exhausted, and now the American basketball star is facing 'harsh' and even 'life-threatening' conditions, according to a 2021 State Department report on human rights issues within the country.Well-known Russian dissident Nadezhda Tolokonnikova described one camp in 2013 as having 'slavery-like conditions,' where she worked in a sewing shop for '16 to 17 hours a day' while getting 'four hours of sleep a night.' And even when she is permitted to rest, the 6-foot-9 Griner will be doing so on a tiny bed in a cramped cell.Others, such as former presidential candidate , have faced torture through sleep deprivation and isolation. Furthermore, the State Department has described prisoner physical and sexual abuse by guards as 'systemic.'
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