The basketball superstar is now at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where she’s expected to undergo “extensive health evaluation” and be screened anemia, electrolyte imb…
Conditions at the penal colony were basic, with 6′ 9″ Garner assigned a small cot to sleep on, being fed very bland meals and conditions so cold her signature dreadlocks would freeze into icicles after a shower,“It’s very cold in there and every time she washed her hair, she got cold and would get a chill,” her lawyer later said.
Attorney Maria Blagovolina, who represented Griner, added the two-time Olympic gold medalist had recently recovered from a bout with the flu. Because of the unknown nature of foreign prison environments such as risks of catching diseases uncommon in the US and being subjected to practices outlawed in this country, such as torture, returning prisoners have to be assessed and coached to integrate them back into normal life.
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