The judicial system and detention centres in Haiti: a weakened justice, invisible results and systematic violation of rights

Marked by repeated strikes among its own staff and struck hard by insecurity, the Haitian justice system produced very little in the judicial year 2023-2024. The report measures the effect of the work stoppages, then takes the changes in the judiciary and the certification of magistrates institution by institution: the justice ministry, the Conseil Supérieur du Pouvoir Judiciaire, the prosecutors' offices at the first-instance courts, the courts themselves, the magistrates certified and the other judicial appointments made.

It devotes a section to the summary executions carried out by a named magistrate, and then to the state of judicial infrastructure: at least thirteen buildings were decommissioned because of the security situation or vandalised and burned by armed groups, and the Port-au-Prince jurisdiction, the largest in the country by the population it serves, barely functioned. The second half of the report covers the detention centres. The title states the finding: a weakened justice system, invisible results, and the systematic violation of rights.