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Inmates in overcrowded French prison say heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane'
The UN said severe overcrowding and heat in French prisons may amount to inhuman or degrading treatment under international law.
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Heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane', say inmates at overcrowded Paris suburb prison
A damp towel hangs from a barred window, a fan churns the muggy air: Inmates at the overcrowded Villepinte prison outside Paris say enduring a heatwave that has stifled France in recent days in cramped cells is "inhumane."
·Toronto, Canada
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Inmates in overcrowded French prison say heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane'
As a heatwave continued to rage in Paris Friday afternoon, French MP Clémentine Autain visited an overcrowded prison in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of the capital and witnessed conditions that inmates describe as “inhumane".
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Here a damp towel hanging from the fenced window, there a fan that brews the hot and moist air: living in heatwave time in the nine square meters of the overcrowded cells of Villepinte prison, "c...
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