 The IK @-@ 2 and IK @-@ 14 penal colonies in Yavas , Zubovo @-@ Polyansky District , Mordovia , are the most common destinations for women prisoners sentenced in Moscow . It is the former location of the Dubravlag labor camp complex of the Gulag system . Tolokonnikova was incarcerated in IK @-@ 14 , whereas Alyokhina was sent to IK @-@ 32 in Perm . The latter is a colony for first @-@ time offenders , which houses a sewing factory , and an experimental vocational program to re @-@ train women prisoners to become digital cartoon animators . Conditions in IK @-@ 32 are relatively favorable , and neither prisoners nor human rights monitors have filed complaints about its conditions . Meanwhile , IK @-@ 14 has a harder reputation . 
