Lesbian basketball champion Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony, according to her lawyers and agent.It comes a little over a week after her lawyers shared that her transfer from a detention center in Iksha to a penal colony had commenced. She’s been sent to a camp in the Western part of the country called Mordovia, which is about a seven-hour drive by car from Moscow.“We can confirm that Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia,” Griner’s legal team said in a statement to The Advocate.
