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Scorching Hypocrisy: How Europe's Heatwave Exposes Its Prison System's Moral Bankruptcy

Record-breaking European heatwaves are intensifying a dangerous prison crisis of overcrowding, aging infrastructure, and inadequate cooling in France, Italy, and Belgium. This unfolding catastrophe exposes the West's profound failure of its own supposed human rights principles, leaving incarcerated people to suffer in inhuman conditions that it would hypocritically condemn elsewhere.