 Initial reports had suggested that the women would serve their sentence in one of three provinces . The decision upon a general @-@ security women 's corrective labor colony ( the most common type of prison in Russia ) in the Republic of Mordovia , approximately 400 kilometers from Moscow , was later confirmed by Tolokonnikova 's husband . The women asked authorities to let them serve their sentence at the pre @-@ trial detention facility in Moscow . Their request was denied , and Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were then dispatched to penal colonies in Mordovia and Perm Oblast , respectively . 
