Haiti
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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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Haiti: des détenus pourraient "mourir de faim", faute de nourriture dans les prisons
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Material conditions
Haiti
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Central America and the Caribbean
Material conditions
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.
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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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Violence
Haiti
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Source — Listin Diario
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Forgotten prisoners
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Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
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Overcrowding
Haiti
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes is a journalist. He comments some pictures he has shot.
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Source — Insight Crime
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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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Haiti
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Source — Le Monde
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Source — Gamaxlive
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Haiti
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Source — AlterPresse
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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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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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Haiti
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Source — Ici Haïti
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Health
Violence
Haiti
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Source — Le Nouvelliste
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Haiti
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Source — le Nouvelliste
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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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Central America and the Caribbean
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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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Haiti
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Source — Radio Télévision Caraïbes
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Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Overcrowding
Haiti
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Source — Le Nouvelliste
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Haiti
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Source — Le Nouvelliste
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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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Overcrowding
Haiti
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Source — Le Nouvelliste
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