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French Prison Guards Step Up Nationwide Strike Over Security, Pay Concerns

The protest follows a series of violent attacks against guards. Unions representing the prison workers are calling for better security and pay raises.
Striking prison guards light a fire as they demonstrate in front of Villefranche-sur-Saone prison on Monday as part of a nationwide movement to call for improved safety and wages.

Prison guards in France are protesting at many of the country's 188 prisons to acknowledge what they say is the government's indifference to

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