Another Jailbreak In Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Sept. 20, 2014, CNS – Authorities in Haiti are dealing with their second jailbreak on less than two months.

Five inmates escaped Saturday from a prison in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. Two of the escapees were later recaptured, one of them shot by prison guards.

Among the inmates still at large is a man sentenced to life for murder and another sentenced to life for kidnapping.

On Aug. 10, 329 inmates broke out of a Haitian prison in Croix-des-Bouquets.

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