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Advocates Question NY Prisons' Heat Protocol
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Advocates question NY Prisons' heat protocol
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)---Advocates for those who are incarcerated at New York State Prisons say last week’s extreme heat was tough for people inside the facilities. "The thing about prisons is that the heat never really goes away," said Thomas Gant, community organizer for The Center of Community for Alternatives. He worries about the well-being of those incarcerated, given the hot temperatures. "Legislation was passed last year in fact, that man…
In one year, there are an additional 6,500 prisoners in French prisons, according to data obtained on Monday 30 June from the Ministry of Justice. An overpopulation of prisons is added to the old buildings.
Since the end of last week, the heatwave plan has been applied in French prisons. However, the unions warn about the conditions of detention.
The announcement of a heat wave at the national level worries the prison administration and all the professionals who work with them. Between the old buildings and the overcrowding of prisons, the high heats significantly worsen the conditions of detention already considered several times unworthy by the European Court of Human Rights. Explanations. Entrance of the prison in Perpignan (Photo: ©CGLPL) "What do they occupy schools and EPHADs befor…
On 1 June 2025, 84,447 persons were imprisoned in France for only 62,566 operational places, according to data from the Ministry of Justice.
As temperatures fly away, French prisons combine two major crises: a chronic shortage of places and inadequate infrastructure for heat. The French prison system reaches its limits under the combined effect of a record density and increasingly intense heat waves. With more than 83,000 inmates, the French prison system [...] L'article French prisons: a deadly choking between overpopulation and heat wave appeared first on Le Singulier.
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