A senior police precinct chief in Haiti, jailed in the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties, has been ...

putting goods and services out of reach for people outside as well as within prison walls. Editorial: Put party politics aside. Haiti needs our help. Gang leaders made no secret of their plans in ...

Haiti's government declared a 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday after armed gangs stormed a major prison. At least 12 people were killed and about 3,700 inmates escaped in the jailbreak.

In the end, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates sentenced Joly, 32, to 420 months or 35 years. It is the harshest sentence of the four defendants in the case who were indicted by a grand jury on ...

On Monday, November 25, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC) reported in a note that the Criminal Court of the Hinche jurisdiction, sitting without jury assistance, sentenced Roudel ...

Haitian gang were killed by police in Port-au-Prince after they launched an attack on the Pétionville neighborhood ...

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 ...

This came since Haiti issued a state of emergency in March after nearly 4,000 inmates escaped one prison and another containing 1,400 prisoners was also overrun. Florida helped evacuate over 700 ...

A 2022 Human Rights Watch report on Haiti's prisons cited overcrowding, lack of food and drinkable water, and unsanitary conditions that resulted in outbreaks of disease. World Prison Brief ...