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Haiti

Capital city — Port-au-Prince

  • Country population

    10,780,000
    i
    2015
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    104
    i
    2015
    / MINUSTAH
  • Type of government

    Semi-presidential democracy
  • Human Development Index

    0.493
    i
    2016
    / UNDP
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  • Total number of incarcerated people

    11,164
    i
    2015
    / MINUSTAH
  • Prison density

    804 %

    The United Nation…

    i
    2015
    / MINUSTAH
  • Total number of prison facilities

    17

    + 5 under constru…

    i
    2016
    / MINUSTAH
  • An NPM has been established

    No
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated w…

    4.1 %
    i
    2015
    / MINUSTAH
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated c…

    2.2 %
    i
    2016
    / United Nations
  • Number and percentage of people awaitin…

    68.6 %
    i
    2015
    / MINUSTAH
  • The death penalty is abolished

    Yes

    since 1987

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Contributor(s)Prison Insider and Human rights organisation BDHH
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • Prison population
    • Organisation
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  • Safeguards
    • National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies
  • Special populations
    • Women
    • Children
    • People awaiting trial
    • People sentenced to death
  • Physical integrity
    • Death penalty
    • Life imprisonment
    • Deaths in detention
    • Ill-treatment and violence
    • Arbitrary or secret detention
  • Specific population
    • Prison population
    • Women
    • Juveniles
    • Foreigners
    • LGBTI persons
    • The elderly
    • The sick and the disabled
  • The penitentiary system
    • Premises
    • Staff
  • Daily life
    • The cells and their equipment
    • Food
    • Hygiene
    • Health
    • Activities
    • Work
    • Schooling and professional training
    • Religion
    • External participants
    • Financial resources and destitution
    • Collective movements
  • Contact with the outside world
    • Family visits
    • Sentence adjustment policies
    • Access to legal rights
    • National preventive mechanism (NPM)
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Country population

10,780,000

i
2015

Type of government

Semi-presidential democracy

Human Development Index

0.493

i
2016
/ UNDP
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