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Really? What is the average time spent in jail for possession in Russia?
by walkhour 4y ago
Really? What is the average time spent in jail for possession in Russia?
- krapp 4y agoFor these charges, according to my research, about a third of offenders get off on parole, and the average sentence is about five years. Ten years in the gulag for less than a gram of THC, with a prescription and a guilty plea is clearly an attempt to make a statement.
- walkhour 4y agoI do believe you. But is there a link I can check, or someone besides you who has researched this?
- krapp 4y agoMy research is just reading articles about the sentencing and appeal quoting her defense team like this: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/europe/brittney-griner-trial/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/europe/brittney-griner-trial/... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brittney-griner-wnba-appeal-russian-court-against-9-year-sentence/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brittney-griner-wnba-appeal-rus... https://reason.com/2022/08/05/brittney-griners-9-5-year-sentence-is-harsh-even-by-russian-standards/ https://reason.com/2022/08/05/brittney-griners-9-5-year-sent... It seems unlikely her lawyers would blatantly lie, given the context.
- walkhour 4y agoThanks, that is useful. So 1/3 get zero years, and the average is 5 years. Speculating the time spent in prison is bell-shaped - and this is a huge if - 1/3 of the sentences could be over 10 years. I think we need more datapoints to conclude this sentence was an outlier. I think the sentence is lengthy but not outrageous according to Russian standards, a country where unfair sentences happen constantly.