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‘Like working in a kettle’: France’s overcrowded prisons swelter under historic heatwave
France's overcrowded prisons are struggling under a historic heatwave, with multiple detainees crammed into single-occupancy cells. Analysts and prison staff criticize the penal system's reliance on mass incarceration as a crime-fighting strategy.
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