Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti's largest prison, most too weak to stand.

The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.

Elsewhere, prisoners are crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in cellblocks so overcrowded they have to sleep in makeshift hammocks suspended from the ceiling or squeeze four to a bunk.

New arrivals at Haiti's National Penitentiary jostlefor space on filthy floors where inmates on lockdown 22 hours a day are forced to defecate into plastic bags in the absence of latrines.

Overcrowding, malnutrition and infectious diseases that flourish in jammed quarters have led to an upsurge of inmate deaths, including 21 at the Port-au-Prince penitentiary just last month.





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Prisoners rest in the facility's infirmary.

Prisoners cram shoulderto shoulder to watch TV in their crowded cell inside the prison.

Cells made for 20 inmates are now being used to house 80 to 100 prisoners at a time.

Prisoners rest in makeshift hammocks which have been made due to a lack of available beds inside the penitentiary.

Some men are even sleeping four to a bunk due to lack of accommodation.

God...

Some inmates at the facility are on lockdown for 22 hours a day.

During the little recreation time they have, some men play checkers, dominoes and card games while others keep their sanity by maintaining a daily exercise routine of pushups and weightlifting where they use jugs filled with dirty water as their weights.

And I'm here thinking of how to rent apartment.
I'm grateful for my life

About 80 per cent of those incarcerated at the prison have not been convicted of a crime but are held in prolonged pretrial detention waiting for their chance to see a judge.

Many of the inmates have to wait up to eight years to see a judge as they await trial.

Pictured, an ailing prisoner stands in a cell designated for sick inmates near the infirmary.

Chaiii

Some 40 per cent of the country's 11,000 inmates are housed in the appalling squalor.

Haiti's penal system is at a staggering 454 per cent occupancy level.

Pictured, prisoners walk around a courtyard at the penitentiary.

Not all the inmates are weakened by hunger.

Some are provided meals by visiting relatives and others are permitted by guards to meet with contacts to bring in food, cigarettes and other things.

Pictured, families with food in tow for their incarcerated relatives, line up in front of the National Penitentiary.

While in America homeless people intentionally commit crime so they can be arrested. Free accommodation. Free food.

While some prisoners are brought food by families, the large majority of prisoners are dependent on authorities to feed them.

Pictured, a prisoner puts food in a bag to send up to a fellow inmate.

Widespread malnutritican has led to deadly cases of malnutrition-related ailments such as beriberi and anemia in the prison.

Pictured, a prisoner stands near the body of an inmate, covered with a plastic tarp, who died of malnutrition.

I will comment yesterday.

One inmate's chest and abdomen tattoos show a variety of designs, including a chest scripture that reads 'After suffering is deliverance'

Anything black man dey na like dat.

If yu see prison for Okene yu no go like disobey yellow fever till yu leave!

Pictured, an inmate bathes using a measuring cup and a pool of water during recreation time at the Port-au-Prince penitentiary.

Authorities feed prisoners twice a day, but inmates get little more than rationed supplies of rice, oats or cornmeal.

Pictured, a prisoner fills his lunch bowl with rice and beans.

I've said this before and gonna say it again, let african countries come together and repatriate the people of Haiti back to Africa. Scorching poverty and its prone to natural disasters makes that country a reproach.

Prisoner pours hot oatmeal into a a large stock pot in the kitchen of the National Penitentiary.

The guy with the tattoos is a real OG. Look at the bullets and stabbings scars.

Damn, see how my fellow humans are treated like animals.

different levels of life...
IT GOES ON THOOR

thank God i detest committing crimes

Goahead:
I've said this before and gonna say it again, let african countries come together and repatriate the people of Haiti back to Africa. Scorching poverty and its prone to natural disasters makes that country a reproach.

Dude, don't you get it?? the black race is cursed! the situation in "kiri-kiri" prison here in Nigeria is worse than this.

DrayDDon:

Dude, don't you get it?? the black race is cursed! the situation in "kiri-kiri" prison here in Nigeria is worse than this.

you are the one cursed not me.

Crime no pay

HeWhoMusntBeNamed:


you are the one cursed not me.

Shithead!! I mention your name for the post??

BigStout:
Crime no pay

Not all of them committed Crime Sir. Akoba lasan dey kill person.

ichommy:


Not all of them committed Crime Sir. Akoba lasan dey kill person.

Some can be innocent.

Explorers:


Some can be innocent.

Yes, Agreed Sir.