Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

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Asharq Al Awsat France's prisons risk transforming into "human warehouses", the Council of Europe said on Thursday, as overcrowding, poor conditions and violence strain a system at record inmate ...

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French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and using bedsheets, sources close to the case told AFP. The 19-year-old ...