French prisons are dirty, overcrowded and run-down, the leading European human rights organization said in a scathing report issued Thursday...
"Living conditions are still unacceptable for numerous detainees, who have to cope with overcrowding, lack of privacy, dilapidated facilities and substandard hygiene," said Hammarberg, a former head of the Save the Children charity.
His report also raised an alarm about prison suicides, saying almost 100 French inmates had taken their own lives this year. "The high level of suicides in French prisons is a symptom of structural deficiencies in the penitentiary system," he said.
That sort of sounds like a place I'd not like to see in person. It's almost like...punishment. As for the substandard hygiene issue...I doubt they really notice. Come on...it's France.
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