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Anonymous wrote:You think Russian jail/ prison is bad…you should travel to South America and then see what really ‘Bad’ means.
Don’t want to do time, don’t do the crime!!!

you sound very very uneducated. Many, many people are in jail for crimes they didn’t commit. People have died in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Just because someone is in jail, doesn’t mean they committed a crime. Our system is imperfect at best, and corrupt at its worst.

Anonymous wrote:You think Russian jail/ prison is bad…you should travel to South America and then see what really ‘Bad’ means.
Don’t want to do time, don’t do the crime!!!

you sound very very uneducated. Many, many people are in jail for crimes they didn’t commit. People have died in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Just because someone is in jail, doesn’t mean they committed a crime. Our system is imperfect at best, and corrupt at its worst.

You think Russian jail/ prison is bad…you should travel to South America and then see what really ‘Bad’ means.
Don’t want to do time, don’t do the crime!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Read Gulag Archipelago for starters.

It’s a very old book and grossly exaggerated according to many people in their 80’s.

The horrors of Russian Marxism cannot be exaggerated.

Anonymous wrote:Russian luxury hotels suck so I can’t begin to imagine how bad their prisons are. Especially for foreigners.

PS. She didn’t do the crime. She had a prescription and a small amount. Not illegal for foreigners to bring in medicines for their own use even if banned in Russia.

What are you talking about?
Even during the USSR, the Moscow Intercontinental was one of the best hotels I’d seen ( including hotels in many West European countries).
Soccer legend Pele was there in 1988 for the opening of a baseball club and he also had the same feeling about the hotel. It was great to see such a legend with no bodyguards around. He was nice enough to chat with us, college students and had Sunday brunch at our table.

Anonymous wrote:Read Gulag Archipelago for starters.

It’s a very old book and grossly exaggerated according to many people in their 80’s.

Russian prisons probably have tons of unpunished same sex rape happening every night.

Russian luxury hotels suck so I can’t begin to imagine how bad their prisons are. Especially for foreigners.

PS. She didn’t do the crime. She had a prescription and a small amount. Not illegal for foreigners to bring in medicines for their own use even if banned in Russia.

read the account of pussy riot member maria aloykhina in russian prison
amazing, enraging, horrible, darkly funny @ times
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/riot-days-by-maria-alyokhina-review-pussy-riot

Anonymous wrote:It might be way worse if you're from a country whose their arch nemesis...I feel for Paul Whelen especially

Both he and Grinder knee Russian law and zero tolerance for drugs. If you have chronic pain so bad that you need medical marijuana you do not go to a country with zero tolerance and no exemption for medical marijuana.

Anonymous wrote:Prison is prison. I prefer to be free. Don't break laws, you'll not have to find out.

That isn't true. You can't compare our prisons with Russian or Chinese and you sound very ignorant. The people in the us who should be in prison just have better lawyers.

Reports state that TB is widespread in the Russian prison system.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I’ve read, it just sounds incredibly boring. Breakfast in your cell followed by some amount of time outside, and then the rest of the day reading books or watching tv. Showers only 2x a week. Inmates have their own restrooms though, and can supposedly order food from online.

In a Russian prison??

This is how it was described by a Russian journalist/human rights activist who visited her in prison. This was before the trial, though…I imagine now that she has been convicted, she will have to participate in the forced labor aspect of it. There is a sewing factory at the camp where she had previously been held.

so its like making license plates?

I heard she's at a work prison so presumably she has to work all day doing some miserable job for no pay.

Navalny and others report insufficient food, bad medical care, abuses, and 16-17 hours a day of forced labor. Add to that everyone communicating in a language you don't speak and I think it would be profoundly physically and mentally damaging.