Freed former US Marine Trevor Reed has shared a chilling account of how he was kept in a blood and poop-smeared Russian jail cell with serial killers and rapists.
Reed, 30, who was released from Russian captivity in April during a prisoner swap, detailed his harrowing time inside a Russian psychiatric facility and jail, where he had been since August 2019.
‘The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a cell. They all had severe, psychological health issues,’ he told CNN in an exclusive interview. ‘Over 50 percent of them in that cell were in there for murder. Or, like, multiple murders, sexual assault and murder – just really disturbed individuals.’
Reed was incarcerated for intoxication while he was on a trip to the country with his Russian girlfriend Alina Tsybulnik in August 2019. Russian authorities took the former Marine to jail to sober up and he was later sentenced to nine years for assaulting and endangering two police officers’ lives, officials claimed.
Reed went on to say that the cell was ‘not a good place’ and he ‘did not sleep there for a couple of days’ because he thought there was a ‘possibility’ his fellow inmates would kill him. His family worried about his health, as the soldier appeared to frail upon release, but has since seemed to regain his health.
‘I was too worried about who was in the cell with me to actually sleep,’ he told CNN.
‘There was blood all over the walls there, where prisoners had killed themselves, or killed other prisoners, or attempted to do that. The toilet’s just a hole in the floor. And there’s, you know, crap everywhere, all over the floor, on the walls. There’s people in there also that walk around that look like zombies.’
