In an excerpt from her book Coming Home, Brittney Griner describes the conditions she endured while in a Russian labor camp
For the first time, Brittney Griner is taking the public inside her stay at IK-2, the Russian labor camp in Mordovia, a Russian republic about 300 miles east of Moscow, where she spent 10 months of her life.
Her new book, Coming Home, written with Michelle Burford, comes out next week, and TIME shared an excerpt in which Griner describes in vivid detail what she went through at the camp. To get through it, she focused on her release date: October 20, 2031. She knew that might change, but having the target in mind was a reminder that there would be an end to this chapter in her life.
“Our machine was basically a rusted old table saw with no shield,” Griner wrote. “Several of the 30 women in my group were missing fingers. My partner had a long scar on her face, starting near her eye.”
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