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Haiti THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND PUBLIC ORDER
Haiti's reputation for human-rights abuses was only a
symptom
of deeper societal problems. As a United States Marine
Corps
report noted in 1934, "although possessed of excellent
laws,
based on the Napoleonic Code of France, Haiti possessed no
means
of enforcing them . . . . Haiti's prisons were a disgrace
to
humanity . . . ." Some might argue that little has changed
over
the years, particularly in the administration of the
country's
criminal justice system and military penal code.
Data as of December 1989
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