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happyslug

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6. According to Wikipedia, not a bad prison.
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 03:22 PM
Nov 2012

As to the actual prison:

The IK-2 and IK-14 penal colonies in Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, are the most common destinations for women prisoners sentenced in Moscow. It is the former location of the DUBRAVLAG prison complex of the Gulag system. Tolokonnikova is incarcerated in IK-14, whereas Alyokhina was sent to IK-32 in Perm.The latter is a colony for first-time offenders, which houses a sewing factory, and an experimental vocational program to re-train women prisoners to become digital cartoon animators.Circumstances in IK-32 are relatively favorable, and neither prisoners nor human rights monitors have filed complaints about its conditions. Meanwhile, IK-14 has a harder reputation.

Please note this prison is in Mordavia, a Russian Republic within the Russian Federation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordovia

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