Basketball star Brittany griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession Grind is legal team says she left a detention center on November 4 for a penal colony a common type of Russian prison where detainees work for minimal pay Her lawyers say they did not know exactly where she was or where she would end up with expected to be notified when she reached her final destination such transfers can take days the 8 time all star center with WNBA's Phoenix mercury and a two time Olympic gold medalist was convicted August 4 after police say they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow's main airport I'm Charles De