By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Going to the bathroom outside when it’s -4 degrees. Only seeing your children two to four times a year. Bathing just once a week. And vying with dozens of other prisoners one hour a week to use one of two phone booths to call home.

This is just a little insight into the harsh reality of life inside Russian’s modern day labor camps, known under Stalin as gulags.

And these are the conditions that two members of the band [expletive] Riot will face when they arrive at two of Russia’s most notorious penal facilities.

In August, a judge convicted Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, of “hooliganism” for performing in a Moscow cathedral.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, both received a two-year sentence and this week they were put on trains to separate camps in the remote areas of Mordovia and Perm.

Svetlana Bakhmina, a lawyer who spent four years in one such camp after being convicted of embezzlement, reveals the harsh realities of life as

an inmate.

“From the moment you stepped into the train, you were no longer recognized as an equal human being – the system treats you as a second-class person,” she tells the Daily Beast.

“They make you jump out of a prison vehicle into the train’s door. You fly with all your bags over about a 3 feet gap while guards with dogs stand on the ground watching you.”

Tolokonnikova will serve her time in the Mordovia colony FGU IK-14 that was once Bakhmina’s home. According to the lawyer, the train journey takes about two days and two nights.

Kept in crowded cages, she says the women are only allowed to use the bathroom twice. The rest of the time they have to improvise.

Bakhmina told BBC News that the facility is like a “tough, Soviet-style camp.” She said: “The inmates were all housed in two big army-style barracks – there were anywhere between 50 and 100 people in each one.

“The barracks were built in the Soviet times – I guess in the 1920