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Fort Dimanche is a former prison in Haiti located near La Saline in Port-au-Prince that was notorious for torture and murder during the reign of François Duvalier. It was declared a monument in 1987. [1] The original Fort Dimanche was built by the French when Haiti was a colony prior to 1804 and fell into disrepair.
Amid the unrest in Haiti since 2018, armed gangs stormed Haiti's two largest prisons in March 2024, resulting in more than 4,700 inmates escaping. The gangs demanded that prime minister Ariel Henry resign, attacking and closing Toussaint Louverture International Airport and preventing Henry from entering the country.
A riot began at the prison in Croix-des-Bouquets, a commune in the Ouest department of Haiti. More than 400 prisoners escaped during the jailbreak. During the fight, eight people died at the scene, including Paul Hector Joseph, the prison's director.
Laura Silsby founded the New Life Children's Refuge and led the expedition in Haiti. Though she was freed after serving her sentence in Haiti, she also faced legal problems in Idaho. [21] [22] In early March 2010, her attorney in these cases filed a motion to withdraw as her counsel. [23]
On 1 February 2024, Joly Germine, the self-proclaimed "king" of the 400 Mawozo gang, pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to smuggling arms [20] such as "AK-47s, AR-15s, an M4 carbine rifle, an M1A rifle, and a .50 caliber rifle, described by the ATF as a military weapon," into Haiti, piloting the operation from a Haitian prison. [21]
Innocent was born on March 27, 1986, in Haiti. [5] Originally a political activist, he still maintains ties to grassroots political movements in Haiti. [6] In a 2024 interview with CNN, he described himself as a former small business owner and stated that his "dream is to get rid of the oligarchs who prevent [Haiti] from progressing".
The National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince is Haiti’s most overcrowded prison. It was designed for 1,300 inmates, but had 3,696 prisoners before the prison break.
Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday evening after as thousands of prisoners apparently escaped the country’s largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has ...