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".
Here a damp towel hanging from the fenced window, there a fan that brews the hot and moist air: living in heatwave time in the nine square meters of the overcrowded cells of Villepinte prison, "c...