Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Griner's family and lawyers, and human rights groups, are worried about what she could face in the Russian penitentiary system, ...

Deep in a snow-covered forest, a few hundred miles removed from Moscow’s bustle and noise, is a bland stretch of Mordovian road with a grim claim to fame. This is Russia’s land of prisons, known for ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic has been transferred to a “completely lawless” penal colony outside Moscow, it was revealed Monday. Alexei Navalny, 44, is serving a ...

Basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia’s Mordovia region, according to a report from Reuters. Griner’s penal colony, known as Female Penal Colony IK-2, is located ...

Basketball star Brittney Griner taken to IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, Russia, lawyers said. What do we know about prison conditions there? Alexander Zemlianichenko AP American basketball star and ...

Former inmates have stories of brutality from prison staff, while human rights activists in the country tell PEOPLE conditions at the IK-2 penal colony seem to get "worse and worse" The Russian penal ...

MOSCOW — This week, lawyers for jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner revealed she is currently on her way to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug ...

"I hope that she will be sent to a colony with a lenient governor who allows her to coach basketball in the daytime rather than being a seamstress," Ivan Melnikov, a human rights activist, tells ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said ferries and cruise ships may soon be visiting the former Isla Marias prison, after the last island penal colony in the Americas was closed and turned into an ...

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on Tuesday said he was "fine" after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer from his prison near Moscow to a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle. "Don't worry ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal colony after being convicted in August of possessing and smuggling drugs, her legal team said on Wednesday, bleak news for the athlete ...

American basketball star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence after being convicted on drug charges, Reuters reported. Griner, ...