Brittney Griner is facing being moved to a prison with "slave-like" conditions after her request to avoid a nine-year jail sentence for drug possession, as the US Government continues to battle for her release.
Griner was arrested back in February for allegedly smuggling cannabis oil, and has attempted on numerous occasions to have her nine-year sentence reduced. However, those attempts have not succeeded, and she now faces being moved into a penal colony. Her legal team said earlier this week they did not know where she'd been moved to.
However, the options are harrowing, and include a female penal colony described as having "slave-like" conditions. Another was described by the United States Department of State as being rife with "systemic" sexual abuse by guards.
