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03/03/2016 11:34:46

Monday at the Fort Liberté prison, the Government Commissioner Hérode Bien-Aîmé and Garry Paul Angrand, the Dean of the Court of First Instance of Fort-Liberté, on authorization of Pierre-Richard Casimir, the Minister of Justice, proceed in the presence of representatives of human rights organizations, the local Episcopal Church and the Minustah, to the release of 55 detainees in end of sentence on humanitarian grounds.

These prisoners were selected based on their health condition deteriorated, some were suffering from AIDS or tuberculosis among others and they were dying in this overcrowded prison, designed for 60 prisoners and that hosts several hundred.

It should be noted that in this penitentiary center where hygienic and sanitary conditions are almost nonexistent, there is at least one death every two months due to illness...

TB/ iciHaiti