The institutions have a history of human rights abuses.
While there are no official statistics on institutions for women, there are believed to be an estimated 60 female penal colonies and pretrial detention centers, Olga Podoplelova, head of litigation at the Russia Behind Bars Foundation, told Axios.What are conditions like in penal colonies?
"Conditions in prisons and detention centers varied but were often harsh and life threatening," the State Department said in a 2021Limited access to health care, poor sanitation, food shortages, and physical and sexual violence are also common, the report said. "Penal policy towards women is declared to be more liberal," Podoplelova told Axios, because they can receive unlimited numbers of packages and cannot be sentenced to life in prison in Russia.
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