Haiti

November 22, 2019

Haiti: mutiny over cooking charcoal in Haiti prison led to gang rapes, human-rights groups say

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

It started around noon, when male detainees inside a prison for men and women north of Haiti’s capital heard there was no charcoal or propane gas to cook their food, and began violently protesting prison conditions and attempting to escape.

Source — Miami Herald

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November 7, 2019

Haiti: reclusos corren riesgo de morir de hambre debido a la crisis

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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November 1, 2019

Haiti: des détenus pourraient "mourir de faim", faute de nourriture dans les prisons

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October 21, 2019

Haiti : dicey prison conditions made worse by crisis

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - With protests rocking the streets, some prison authorities in Haiti have confined inmates to cells that lack showers or toilets, in a country where most detainees are stuck awaiting trial for months or even years. Read more

February 12, 2019

Haiti: all inmates escape from Aquin

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

All 78 inmates of a prison in southern Haiti have escaped from captivity, according to the country’s police. The detainees reportedly made their escape from Aquin prison while police were distracted by anti-government protests nearby Haiti’s national police force said it has launched an investigation…

Source — Le Dauphiné

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October 31, 2018

Este año han muerto 118 presos en las cárceles de Haití por hacinamiento

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Listin Diario

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May 8, 2017

Informe propone ofrecer asistencia jurídica para reducir hacinamiento en cárceles de Haití

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Insight Crime

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April 19, 2017

Aspen nonprofit arranges meals for starving prison inmates in Haiti

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Central America and the Caribbean Health Haiti

Haiti Children working with other nonprofits, and Haitians to feed 4,200 prisoners living in dismal conditions

Source — The Denver Post

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March 29, 2017

Haïti : à Port-au-Prince, les cachots de la faim

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Le Monde

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March 25, 2017

Une Québécoise dans l’enfer d’une prison haïtienne

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Gamaxlive

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March 13, 2017

91% des détenus, privés "illégalement" de liberté à la prison centrale en Haïti, déplore l’expert indépendant de l’ONU Gustavo Gallón

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Central America and the Caribbean Asia Haiti

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Source — AlterPresse

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February 22, 2017

Mass funeral held for 20 Haitians who died in dismal prison

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

Relatives wailed in grief or stared stoically as flowers were placed on 20 caskets at a mass funeral Tuesday for the latest group of inmates who died miserably in Haiti’s largest prison, most without ever having been convicted of any crime.

Source — Associated Press

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February 20, 2017

Haiti : 'this is hell'. Inside Haitian jail where prisoners starve to death and defecate on floors of overcrowded cells

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti’s largest prison, most too weak to stand. The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.

Source — Mail Online

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February 10, 2017

Haiti : 3 prisonniers meurent de faim dans la prison des Cayes

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Ici Haïti

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January 27, 2017

Haïti : le RNDDH dénombre, en 1 an, 71 morts au pénitencier national

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Central America and the Caribbean Health Haiti

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Source — Le Nouvelliste

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January 16, 2017

Haïti : Détention préventive prolongée avec "plus de personnes non encore jugées que de condamnées ", affirme Jean Danton Léger

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Source — le Nouvelliste

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October 26, 2016

Haiti : inside job? Guard under suspicion after 173 inmates break out of Haiti jail

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

A guard at a Haiti prison is suspected of helping 173 inmates escape from a prison over the weekend.

Source — Carribean 360

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October 24, 2016

Haïti : 174 inmates escape prison

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

Scores of inmates from a Haitian prison escaped Saturday after killing an officer and stealing weapons, authorities said. Judge Henry Claude Louis-Jean said others were injured in the prison break that occurred in Arcahaie, a coastal town about 50 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital.

Source — VOA

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August 26, 2016

Haïti : une prison de haute sécurité et standardisée inaugurée à Fort-Liberté

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

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Source — Radio Télévision Caraïbes

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May 31, 2016

Haïti : à la prison civile de Jacmel comme au bout de l’enfer

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Central America and the Caribbean Health Overcrowding Haiti

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Source — Le Nouvelliste

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April 4, 2016

Haïti : 4 096 détenus provisoires dans la promiscuité en attente d’être jugés

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Central America and the Caribbean Pre-trial detention Overcrowding Haiti

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Source — Le Nouvelliste

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January 29, 2016

Haiti: inauguration of the new civil prison for women in Cabaret

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Central America and the Caribbean Women Haiti

Thursday, January 28, Ambassador of the United States in Haiti, Peter F. Mulrean, along with several civil, political, religious and local and of the Minustah, proceeded to the inauguration of the new civilian women’s prison located in Cabaret near Ti Tanyenclose to the road leading to Saut d’Eau on…

Source — Haïti Libre

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December 29, 2015

Haïti : pénitencier national au-dedans de l’enfer

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Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Haiti

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Source — Le Nouvelliste

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September 25, 2014

Inside Haiti's prisons: a nation battles crime and human rights abuses as it struggles to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake

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Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Haiti

The former French naval officer looks down from the walls of Haiti’s National Penitentiary at the mass of prisoners crowded in the yards below and delivers a simple verdict.

Source — Evening Standard

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