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Articles about Criminal Deportation to Haiti, Alternative Chance, and Criminal Deportation in general

Image: Imprisoned upon arrival to Haiti

Photo by Jennifer Cheek-Pantaleon (copyright)

New life is no life for U.S. ex-cons in Haiti , by Gary Marx, Chicago Tribune

Influx of deportees stirs anger in Haiti by Amy Bracken, Boston Globe

We Must Also Stand for the Rights of Women Criminal Deportees Sent to Haiti from the United States by Michelle Karshan, Alternative Chance

For Haitian deportees, American-style 'grills' mark them as targets for violence, hate, by Ruth Morris, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 29, 2006

HAITI: Mysterious Prison Ailment Traced to U.S. Rice

Boston Globe 2000 article in which Alternative Chance and Criminal Deportees expose police racket extorting money from Criminal Deportees in exchange for their release from prison/jails in Haiti!

Haitians Facing Deportation Seek Special Visa by Daniela Gerson, New York Sun

Video clip of Michelle Karshan from speech at John Jay College about Criminal Deportation

Nationwide Legal Actions to Stop Deportations to Haiti

The "Invisible Crisis" - Soaring Deportations Cause Pain Around the World -- and here at CUNY by David Leong

Haiti's Desperate Deportees by Andy Kershaw (BBC)

The Panos Institute: Briefing on Haiti: CRIMINAL DEPORTEES AND RETURNED TEENS by Privat Precil

Claudette Etienne died four days after being deported to Haiti. Haiti Progres’ investigative journalism tells the story in the September 27, 2000 story entitled Mother of two, deported to Haiti, dies in Haitian jail by Mara Delt.

IN FRENCH: Claudette Etienne died four days after being deported to Haiti. Haiti Progres’ investigative journalism tells the story in the September 27, 2000 story entitled Mother of two, deported to Haiti, dies in Haitian jail by Mara Delt.

Criminal Aliens and Immigration: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Conference Summary from February 10, 1999, Washington, D.C., Co-sponsored by The International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Fundacao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento. Includes recommendations.

INS Resource Information Center: Haiti: Information on Conditions in Haitian Prisons and Treatment of Criminal Deportees (2nd Response)

The US Deportees in Haiti by Guy S. Antoine

Deportees from the US struggling to cope with life in Haiti (Haiti Support Group Briefing Newsletter)

Prolonged Pretrial Detention in Haiti by Vera Institute for Criminal Justice (IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH)

Deported or Dumped in Haiti? by Claude Adams (Saturday Night Magazine)

Democracy and Human Rights in Haiti 2004 by Andrew Reding ( World Policy Reports) (give it time to load!)

Losing the American dream - Deportees reflect on life in Haiti by Yves Colon (Miami Herald)

Haitian-Born Fredeline Dauphin Released From INS Custody after more than 2 Years by Proving that Deportees From The United States face Torture in Haiti's Jails (Press Release from law offices of Mitchell J. Cohen)

IN RE J-E-: DIVIDED BIA DENIES CAT PROTECTION TO CRIMINAL DEPORTEE FEARING TORTURE (Immigrants' Rights Update, Vol. 16, No. 3, May 30, 2002)

U.S. to Caribbean: criminal deportees law “a fact of life.” U.S. rules out changes that would ease pain on immigrant families by Tony Best (New York Carib News)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Haitians Are Jailed in Haiti after Serving Sentence in the U.S. by Anna Wardenburg-Ferdinand (The Haitian Times)

Deportados y Desplazados: Un fenómeno migratorio, un problema social by Privat Precil (Panos Institute Briefing)

Man deported by mistake dies of heart attack by Yves Colon (Miami Herald)

Deported "home" to Haiti by Donna DeCesare (NACLA)

Rebellious young Tommy Sylvian couldn't escape his heritage by Yves Colon (Miami Herald)

Deportation Case Focuses on Definition of Torture by Nina Bernstein (New York Times)

Rights Agency Urges U.S. Not to Deport AIDS Patient by Nina Bernstein (New York Times)

Desperate Passage by Michael Finkel (New York Times Magazine)

Forced to Go Home Again by Bryan Lonegan (New York Times)

Banned in the U.S.A. by Celeste Fremon (www.streetgangs.com)

How Often Is The Aggravated Felony Statute Used? TRAC Immigration

Land of the Detained by Dan Frosch (AlterNet)

JUSTICE DETAINED - The effects of deportation on immigrant families - a report by Aypal

The Disappearing Federal Courts by Ira J. Kurzban (www.kkwtlaw.com)

18 With a Bullet - gangs in El Salvador (Wide Angle-PBS) (includes deportees)

Haiti: Giving Hope a Second Chance by Donna DeCesare (APF Reporter Vol.19 #3 Index)

Shadow Dreams and New Youth Visions: Gangs and Violence Prevention in the Americas by Donna DeCesare (Fifty Crows, Social Change Photography)

Black Immigrants are Prime Targets for Deportation by Tamara Kil Ja Kim Nopper (The Black Commentator)

Haitian government announces it will imprison Criminal Deportees upon arirval to Haiti, August 16, 2006

Preliminary Report by Michelle Karshan on Police Executions & Torture of Criminal Deportees in Haiti 2004-2006

Deepa Fernandes discusses her new book Targeted followed by presentations by community organizers: Aarti Shahani of Families for Freedom, Michelle Karshan of Alternative Chance and Fahad & Mother of Martin Siraj of DRUM

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