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 ...

More than 200 prisoners were on the run in Haiti on Friday, a day after they escaped from jail in a violent breakout that left 25 people dead including the prison director, officials said. About 400 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A man rides his bicycle past police station in Pont-Sonde, Haiti, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File) WASHINGTON ...

A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 17 people — 16 of them Americans — including five ...

Germine Joly, the self-described "king" of Haiti's notoriously violent 400 Mawozo gang, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in federal prison without parole for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police recaptured an alleged kidnapper who escaped custody during a mass breakout that authorities believe was staged for him at a prison outside the Haitian capital, ...

Dec 3 (Reuters) - The former head of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo was sentenced on Wednesday in a U.S. court to life in prison for masterminding the 2021 kidnapping of a group of American ...

Massacre was afoot when Haitian police stormed the Les Cayes prison to put down a riot. Suggested Reading Cutting Off Access to Money Has Been a Weapon Against Civil Rights Movements Black Men Get ...

Port-au-Prince, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Volunteers for the Reintegration of Detainees in Haiti (AVRED-Haiti) described the current situation in one of this nation's prisons as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 people, including five children, who ...

Haitian Ex-Gang Leader Gets Life in Prison for Kidnappings of US Missionaries By Steve Gorman Dec 3 (Reuters) - The former head of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo was sentenced on Wednesday in a ...