Haiti On crowded prisons

You ask why the prisons are overcrowded. First, you must know, by affirming the Minister that the Department can not release without trial. But to trial takes time. Sometimes a very long time. When one is without a name, anonymous, no-one degree. You know that the social composition of preventive detainees (or temporary) is crucial in understanding the problem. Anyone who has an economic burden, social, cultural, political undergoes less the prison. Is it because he can choose a battery of lawyers to prepare his defense. Unlike the impoverished who finally assisted by the judicially-appointed office of a lawyer. Meanwhile, the defense has not been organized at all. To cause.

Then, the problem space. The Justice Minister, Jean-Joseph Exumé said on the morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2009 apart from the National Penitentiary, the prison is not appropriate. "These barracks, said he on Radio Métropole, Army and Police were combined, next to the barracks there were booths that are large halls, where it has bars and now." Currently, the Croix-des-Bouquets, is building a prison. Each detainee will have 4 m² of space. So the department is tackling cooking overflow in prisons.
But all is not simple because Minister Jean Joseph Exumé reveals the blow of rising crime. The forms of crime have changed. It was understood, in the confusion, there is no restraint or discomfort to slide into delinquency. The sociological composition of the sobering crime, offenders are getting younger. Monday, September 14, 2009, the Second Board (Chair: Judge Bredy Fabien), was on trial a young man of 21 years. In the streets of Petion-Ville, at dawn he threatened bystanders with a fake weapon. An object nickel but was not a gun. The Crown will waive the charge. The accused found freedom. But his youth was caught with the meager assistance. Another offender, accused of illegal possession of weapons will be fined. Again, a young. And does this mean that young people, left to themselves, glide easily on the path of crime (iter criminis)? Must specify that idleness is not an excuse.

The living conditions are difficult, there are limited opportunities, lack of prospects. These problems have long been identified, but without wishing to make moral judgments, the descent into crime is not the solution. This means that the government, the government must deploy action continues to occupy young people, their interest and facilitate opportunities for vocational training and university and access to employment. Otherwise, the delinquency will not retreat. It is true that family breakdown is for something. The family has a role to play in guiding and educating young people. Similarly, non-supported youth has strong rural-urban migration. Families do not replenish themselves. The young immigrant finds himself in a neighborhood with malformed unsavory groups. It does not take more to change the margins of society. Again, the government, the government must make a well thought out action to promote the resumption of productive activity in the countryside. To set the generator to his land. At the same time, develop the campaign through the establishment of basic services. The eternal problem of the development of rural areas.

You have understood, the prisons overcrowded, not a simple problem. He deserves to be identified in order to find solutions with the Department of Justice if, of course, the department wants to involve civil society whose availability is a foregone conclusion and cooperation never bargained.