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Young girls are being gang raped, entire neighborhoods are emptying under the barrage of gunfire, and ransom kidnappings are again flourishing. As Haiti helplessly flails, unable to stop the violent onslaught and the United Nations repeatedly calls for an international armed force to confront marauding gangs, a question looms amid the chaos: Where would you put the arrested gang leaders? Haiti not only has a gang problem, it has a prison problem. With disease and death constant threats due to food shortages, limited medical supplies, budget problems and delays in the transfer of inmates to hos…

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