‘Your Personality Deforms’: Navalny Sent to Notoriously Harsh Prison Convicts in the isolation unit at Penal Colony No. 2 are forced to stand for hours with their hands clasped behind their backs, forbidden to make eye contact with the guards. The prison where Aleksei A. Navalny is said to be serving his sentence, Penal Colony No. 2, is known for abusive treatment of inmates.Credit...Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Published March 1, 2021Updated March 2, 2021 MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition politician, is going to serve his prison sentence in a penal colony notorious for disciplinary measures considered harsh even by Russian standards, Russian news outlets reported on Monday.