The dreaded IK-2 penal colony will house WNBA star Brittney Griner for the next nine years. Following this huge update, various reports from around the world have revealed spine-chilling details about the inside workings of a Russian penal colony.

Punishments for wrongdoings in the prison are pretty common. The guards have various measures to keep the prisoners in check. One of them is cruelly mauling kittens in front of the inmates. A former prisoner who served in a similar penal colony to that of Griner once divulged horrific events that may await BG.

Brittney Griner may have to witness horrific scenes during her sentence

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner has a tough nine years ahead of her. She was in Russia to join her teammates at UMMC Ekaterinburg. Like many other athletes, she used to spend the WNBA offseason abroad to earn a decent salary.

Earlier this year, officials detained her at a Moscow airport when they discovered traces of cannabis oil in vape cartridges while searching her belongings. Subsequently, she was sentenced to nine years in prison with the IK-2 penal colony being her home for the next nine years.

Various sources have cited that inmates go to any extent so as to dodge serving their sentence in the penal colony. Gelena Alekseyeva served a part of her sentence in the IK-14 prison which is located in Mordovia. The IK-2 penal colony, where Griner will be serving, is also located in the same region.

During an interview in 2019, Alekseyeva revealed horrific details about the workings of the prison. She said, “There is nothing more dear to the inmates than these kittens and cats. But they can also be used for punishment. So, if you sewed badly today then we will burn the cats! They don’t punish one or two people — they punish a whole brigade.”

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Cats are kept in prison in order to keep rodents at bay. However, when the cats reproduce, the guards get rid of them very cruelly so as to punish the entire prison.

Daily quotas are regularly increased in the penal colonies

Similar to other inmates, Brittney Griner will have to work in the prison. The most common activity in the prison is sewing. The inmates have to sew a certain number of clothes every day.

According to a former inmate, the daily quotas were constantly raised. Moreover, in case a prisoner complained about the quota, she would be punished.

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