Heatwaves expose overcrowding crisis in Europe's ageing prisons

Heatwaves expose overcrowding crisis in Europe's ageing prisons  Reuters

ORLEANS, France/ROME/BRUSSELS – On a day when temperatures were soaring past 37 deg C 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 t