Haiti: Reports of alarming prison conditions continue

Haiti: Reports of alarming prison conditions continue

The organization informed, “The findings in the Cap-Haitien prison are alarming and reflect a detention situation marked by an advanced deterioration of human and material conditions.” The prison currently holds 841 inmates: 30 women, five of whom have already been sentenced; 16 children, only one of whom has been sentenced; and 795 men, only 122 of whom have been tried. The Association described the overcrowding in this prison as dramatic, as t…