The situation is under control but the results are catastrophic. All the cops' dormitories have burnt down. The archives have burnt down. They've set everything on fire except their cells, State Prosecutor Venson Francois said, the Reuters news agency reported.
Walter Montas, a local government official, said the incident spiraled from a protest as prisoners were going without food and facing poor health conditions.
Haitian prisons are severely overcrowded and pretrial detentions can stretch for years, leading to volatile situations among inmates regarding their dire living conditions.
Eleven suspected escaped inmates were killed in shootouts with police and one was arrested, according to Michel Ange Louis Jeune, spokesman for Haiti's National Police.
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