{"id":260920,"date":"2016-10-23T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260920"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:00:54","slug":"more-than-170-inmates-break-out-of-haiti-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260920","title":{"rendered":"More than 170 inmates break out of Haiti jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">More than 170 inmates have escaped from a Haitian prison in Arcahaie, 45km (30 miles) north of the capital Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n<p>The inmates stole five rifles; a guard and an inmate were killed in an exchange of fire.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have begun a manhunt for the fugitives with the help of UN peacekeepers stationed in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Haitian government tweeted that it condemned what it described as a prison mutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One guard was killed during the incident,&#8221; Justice Minister Camille Edouard Junior told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three prisoner were wounded, including one who died as a consequence of his wounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eleven escapees have so far been detained, and checkpoints have been set up on roads near the prison.<\/p>\n<p>However, inmates at Arcahaie do not wear prison uniforms, making it easier for them to blend in with the general population.<\/p>\n<p>Haitian prisons are notoriously overcrowded and inmates spend years in pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/136CD\/production\/_92056597_shoesap.jpg\" alt=\"Prisoners' shoes at Arcahaie prison, Haiti, 22 October 2016\" width=\"514\" height=\"289\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 170 inmates have escaped from a Haitian prison in Arcahaie, 45km (30 miles) north of the capital Port-au-Prince. The inmates stole five rifles; a guard and an inmate were killed in an exchange of fire. The authorities have begun a manhunt for the fugitives with the help of UN peacekeepers stationed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":260929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[3,4980,12934],"class_list":["post-260920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-ghana-news","tag-haiti","tag-jailbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}