the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture

Inmates in overcrowded French prison say heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane'

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". 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...