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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Heatwaves expose overcrowding crisis in Europe's ageing prisons

ORLEANS, France/ROME/BRUSSELS: On a day when temperatures were soaring past 37 degrees Celsius outside, the prisoner sat in his cell with wet towels around his window bars, ​trying to explain to the visiting politician how it felt to be locked ​up in France during a heatwave.

Most days, 29-year-old Manu stayed on his bed, trying to move as little as possible. "You have to deal with it ​mentally," he said in one of France's newer jails - Orleans-Saran opened in 2014.

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