The nation is holding Alexey Navalny in a detention center though according to Navalny's lawyer and Russia is apparently planning to transfer him to a penal colony, a remote settlement for prisoners.
Less than one in 20 Japanese deemed to have committed a penal offence go to prison, compared with one in three of those arrested in America, where the average jail term is much longer.
They said, " Oh, it had all been an accident, he just heard a noise and he'd shot off into the darkness, " so they commuted his sentence to a lifetime of penal servitude.
The British had come to these remote, far-flung islands in order to set up a difficult-to-escape-from penal colony for Indians who were rebelling against their growing conquests over on the subcontinent.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has asked a court to halt the hourly night-time checks to which he has been subjected in his penal colony where he's imprisoned.
American basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, this according to her legal team on Wednesday.
The United States is imposing economic sanctions over Alexei Navalny's poisoning and jailing in Russia. The opposition leader is now in a penal colony.