The Haiti National Police is increasingly being outmatched by rival armed gangs that have expanded their reach beyond Port-au-Prince, the capital. Detainees have escaped from another prison in Haiti.

Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after thousands of inmates apparently escaped from its largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation ...

In the quiet suburban Lake Worth Beach office from where she works now, Karine Duverger still can hear the noise of the gunfire that has turned Port-au-Prince, Haiti, streets into battlegrounds. It ...

First, armed groups attacked Haiti’s largest prison and orchestrated a jailbreak of nearly 4,000 inmates, many of them murderers, kidnappers and gang leaders. Now the country’s National Penitentiary ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s ...

Haiti’s national penitentiary is on fire after a blaze broke out in the building on Thursday morning, according to Reuters. A video posted to social media reportedly showed black smoke coming out of ...

Officials in Haiti on Aug.12 announced that police have re-captured Clifford Brandt, a disgraced businessman who seems to have been the intended beneficiary of an armed prison break two days earlier.

A U.S. federal judge sentenced Haitian gang leader Joly Germine to life in prison for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 16 American missionaries. The sentencing follows growing U.S. efforts to ...

Washington, D.C.- Joly Germine, the self-proclaimed “king” of Haiti’s violent 400 Mawozo gang, was sentenced to life in prison by a Washington court for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 16 ...

The former head of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo was sentenced on Wednesday in a U.S. court to life in prison for ...

Detainees have escaped from another prison in Haiti. The latest prison break occurred north of the capital in the city of St. Marc, where the local business community has been calling for police ...