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But Griner has serious bona fides, having spent nearly ten months in Russian prisons, much of it in a brutal penal colony, before being released in a prisoner swap with the United States.
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Two of the soldiers, Major Vitaly Vansyatsky and Lieutenant Andrei Iordanov, were sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and stripped of their military titles.
—CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
The Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning show highlighted the richly biodiverse ecosystem of the Central American nation's Coiba National Park, which includes an island that was once a penal colony.
—Maya Duclay, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025
The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alex Navalny said foreign lab results concluded that he was poisoned while serving out a prison sentence at an Arctic penal colony.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Two of the soldiers, Major Vitaly Vansyatsky and Lieutenant Andrei Iordanov, were sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and stripped of their military titles.
—CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
The Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning show highlighted the richly biodiverse ecosystem of the Central American nation's Coiba National Park, which includes an island that was once a penal colony.
—Maya Duclay, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025
The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alex Navalny said foreign lab results concluded that he was poisoned while serving out a prison sentence at an Arctic penal colony.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Penal colony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20colony. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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