Haitians are dying of thirst and starvation in severely overcrowded jails
People gather outside the National Penitentiary for their turn to deliver food to their jailed relatives in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, June 1, 2023. In December 2022, the University of Florida published a study that found that men in Haiti’s prisons were on a starvation-level diet, consuming fewer than 500 calories a day. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
By DÁNICA COTO
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti’s most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis....