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We met refugees charging their phones for free at power strips running from a portable generator in Khyber Darbar, one of the bigger cafes. Young men chat with volunteers and other refugees while watching Will Smith in "I am Legend" on a flat-screen TV perched precariously in a corner of the tent. "My heart does not accept it," says refugee Darya Khan, pictured in Calais. The TV was practically the only concession to relaxation we saw in the Jungle. A tent where a charity gives out information has a sign advertising movie showings, but the laptop of the Spanish volunteer manning the operation is broken so the movies have stopped.

"It's food, sleep, food, sleep," Amin Amini, a 25-year-old from Iran, says of the tedium of camp life, Still, the high street is vulnerable selfie giraffe in new york iphone case to the whims of Calais authorities, Police swept through last month, arresting vendors and confiscating stock, Volunteers from the Refugee Info Bus, which supplies free Wi-Fi in the camp, used their smartphones to record officers in riot gear drinking the water they had just confiscated, The shops and cafes violated health regulations, police said, a cruel irony given the unsanitary condition of the place as a whole..

The Jungle has no electricity, so the loss of a portable generator is keenly felt by those needing to charge their phones. This week, a judge in Lille granted the restaurants and shops a reprieve from closure because they're vital to the community, in part because they offer phone charging. The deteriorating state of the Jungle finally convinced Khan, the Afghan refugee, to move into the container camp despite his misgivings about the handprint scanner. He still hopes to continue his journey soon and settle somewhere he can live a normal life.

"My heart does not accept it," Khan says of his life in Calais, Like all the refugees we spoke to, he doesn't expect the French to provide for him, "They don't know me, they should not selfie giraffe in new york iphone case look after me," he says, Even so, he and many of the people stranded here deserve better than the Jungle, First published August 13, Updated October 27 at 5:58 a.m, PT: Added an editors' note to reference the start of the closure of the Jungle as police began moving refugees out, Updates in August gave new population figures for the Jungle and clarified the relationship between the hand scanner and the immigration databases..

In northern France, authorities and charities have built three refugee camps with different technology and philosophies. But their good intentions can easily be undermined. This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. Editors' note: On October 24, French police began to clear refugees out of the Jungle as a prelude to demolishing the camp, which charities say holds 5,500 people. Earlier in the year, we visited the facility. This story describes what we found.