WORLD● ELEVATEDJun 25 · Jun 25, 2026, 4:57 PM
‘Like working in a kettle’: France’s overcrowded prisons swelter under historic heatwave
France 24 [en]
The deadly heatwave sweeping France has once again exposed the structural problems of the country’s chronically overcrowded prisons, with groups of three or four detainees crammed into airless cells built to hold a lone prisoner. Analysts and prison staff alike have criticised a penal system that continues to see mass incarceration as the main means of cracking down on crime.
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