Escaping Of Prisoners After Earthquake to Pose More Security Related Problems

The earthquake was not enough for making Haiti prone to biggest insecurity that the prisoners also escaped from the prisons making the situation of security more vulnerable.  Approximately four thousand jail inmates have alone escaped from the main prison of Haiti. The advantage that the prisoners have taken from the natural calamity has worsened the position security in the country. If one looks at the report that has been submitted by U.N it becomes clear that once the earthquake hit, the prisoners involved in riots with the guards and managed to escaped in the due course.

Now the criminals, assassins and bandits are open and thus the overall situation of the country is now becoming critical as far as the efforts of the escapers in terrorizing the general public are concerned.  The country has been in the news these days and it is not that the earthquake is only being discussed; the lootings that are taking place are much of a tension. Now that the jail prisoners have escaped, they are looting people and making the situation worse for the security personnel to handle.

A glance at what exactly happened

At the time when the major earthquake hit the country, the Haitian National Penitentiary was accommodating about four thousand inmates. If one considers what the witness had to say at that time, the walls of the prison and the prison also was shattered to broken concrete and the prisoners who managed to survive this began to helter-shelter from the prison. The guards who were there at that time also fired at the prisoners who were escaping, but no one knows that how successful they were.

If one talks of the prisoners who were in the jail at that time, it is not that it was housing only the convicted criminals; there were many political prisoners who were also there.  If the statistics are viewed, it can be known that approximately eighty percent of the prisoners have not been convicted of the crime also as the entire criminal system of the country is extremely slow.

Now that the country has completely lost its civil stricture and many prisoners are fleeing, it cannot be stated that the daily needs of the people are going to get met and the country would recover from this massive destruction soon.  The crumbled buildings are more than enough and evidence to prove the destruction that the whole nation has faced.  At this particular time, mountains of relief machineries are required by the country and some strict measures to deal with the robbers and the looters who are roaming on the roads freely.

One cannot forget that still there are more than thirty thousand inmates in the U.S jails and efforts to reaching to a decision for them is also a part of the entire nation rebuilding efforts that are being made.  Now efforts have to be made to see that the hardened criminals are brought back to their place and the political prisoners are also provided justice.