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Record heat turns Italian detention centers into 'torture chambers'

Original: # Italy In Italy, for example, record summer heat has turned hundreds of detention centers into de facto torture chamber

Record summer heat in Italy has pushed temperatures inside hundreds of detention centers past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), with prison cells regularly overheating across the peninsula. Citing a New York Times report, commentators are describing the conditions as de facto torture chambers, raising concern about the treatment of inmates during the country's extreme summer temperatures.

Why now: Record summer heat across Italy is spotlighting dangerous, inhumane conditions in its detention centers.

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• # Italy In Italy, for example, record summer heat has turned hundreds of detention centers into de facto torture chambers. As the New York Times reports, temperatures inside prison cells across the Italian peninsula have regularly exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit, choking… · Snoro · 8

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