‘Guard said he’d ‘f**k each and every one of us’ – released gun activist Butina recalls humiliation in US prison

‘Guard said he’d ‘f**k each and every one of us’ – released gun activist Butina recalls humiliation in US prison

26 Oct, 2019 21:32 / Updated 8 days ago

Maria Butina on her arrival in Moscow. © Reuters / Tatyana Makeyeva

The US penal system takes lives away from female inmates and turns them into constantly humiliated slaves, Maria Butina, who returned to Russia after spending more than a year in an American prison, said.

Butina, who was charged with failing to properly register as a foreign agent, spent a month in solitary confinement before pleading guilty to the charges. The Russian said she only did it because she knew that her persecution was politically motivated and a fair trial was impossible.

“The worst thing is the US Marshals Services where they humiliate you; forbid you from going to the toilet for 16 hours; deny you water or food,” Butina said as she talked to RT and Sputnik news agency on a plane that was taking her from the US back to Moscow. After that a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida seemed like “paradise” for her as she was allowed to go for walks and got a lot better rations….https://www.rt.com/news/471947-butina-us-prison-russia/