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, ...

*According to a University of Texas professor, Brittney Griner’s life inside a Russian penal colony will be hell on earth. “Her life will be very difficult,” said Marina Alexandrova, who lectures on ...

Griner's lawyer previously told PEOPLE that the transfer to Mordovia's penal colony was "a very challenging period for her" and had the WNBA "very stressed" as she tried to adjust Natasha Dye is a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner lost an appeal of her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession on Tuesday at a Russian court. The eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s ...

A video of Marine Corps veteran Paul Whelan surfaced from Russian-backed state media on Tuesday, showing the American citizen -- detained on what the U.S. says are baseless charges -- in a penal ...