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HAITI: TRAPPED IN THE TITANIC.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 13-MAR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 954 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
[The following article by Jane Regan is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the Feb. 26, 2003, edition of Latinamerica Press.]

"I've been in here for six years," said Gustave Loiseau as he peered through the bars of the section of the National Penitentiary known as the "Titanic" because it towers over the rest of the antiquated complex. "I came when I was 22. They found drugs in the car. I don't deny it. But all the guys I was with got off, because they had the money to pay bribes."

Like more than 80% of the 3,500 men and women in Haiti's prisons, Loiseau has never had a trial. He has spent the past six years in a four-square-meter cell with 20 other inmates and six beds.

"You have to pay to get a...

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