{"id":27545,"date":"2016-10-23T04:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:18:43","slug":"100-inmates-break-jail-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/100-inmates-break-jail-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"174 inmates break Jail in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is one of the biggest jail breaks .More than 174 mostly barefoot inmates overpowered guards and escaped from a lockup in central Haiti, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge Henry Claude Louis\u2014Jean said the prison break occurred on Saturday in Arcahaie, a coastal town about 30 miles north of Haiti\u2019s capital. One guard was reported killed and others were injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The escapees stole an unknown number of weapons and some exchanged gunfire with police during the chaotic breakout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inmates attacked after they were released from a crammed holding pen to bathe, according to provincial authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27547\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/haitti.jpg\" alt=\"haitti\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/haitti.jpg 700w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/haitti-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haitian prisons are notoriously overcrowded and many inmates spend years in pre-trial detention. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how many of the escaped inmates in Arcahaie were convicted of serious crimes and how many were awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police were asking jittery residents of the coastal area to follow authorities\u2019 instructions as a manhunt intensified.It wasn\u2019t clear if any of the inmates had been recaptured by Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Embassy advised all American citizens to avoid the area due to the escape. The police are on the search for the Jail breakers .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the biggest jail breaks .More than 174 mostly barefoot inmates overpowered guards and escaped from a lockup in central Haiti, officials said. Judge Henry Claude Louis\u2014Jean said the prison break occurred on Saturday in Arcahaie, a coastal town about 30 miles north of Haiti\u2019s capital. One guard was reported killed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[10941,10940,10939,8539,10942,10938],"class_list":["post-27545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-arcahaie","tag-central-haiti","tag-escaped","tag-haiti","tag-haitian-prisons","tag-inmates-break-jail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/haiti.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}