Michelle Karshan and staff and participants of Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ in Haiti
 
ALTERNATIVE CHANCE/CHANS ALTENATIV
A self-help, advocacy program for criminal deportees in Haiti
 
 
March 28, 2008 Alternative Chance/Michelle Karshan response to 2007 US State Dept Report issued March 11, 2008
challenges assertions made regarding treatment of Criminal Deportees arriving in Haiti
 
 
Articles about Criminal Deportation to Haiti, Alternative Chance, and Criminal Deportation in general
Articles on Alternative Chance, Criminal Deportees, Criminal Deportation and Haiti
 
 
CONTACT US
Mailing, telephone, email, fax -- contact information
 
 
ATTENTION ATTORNEYS
For attorneys fighting criminal deportation from the United States
 
 
HOW YOU CAN HELP!
Donate money or materials, Volunteer in Haiti or the US.
 
 
Press Releases and Alerts
Alternative Chance Press Releases and Alerts on Haiti and Criminal Deportees/Deportation
 
 
Very Brief Overview of Haitian Government Response to Criminal Deportation to Haiti
Criminal Deportation to Haiti and Haitian government response
 
 
June 2006 Note on Our Work
Overview of Chans Altenativ work and thinking
 
 
Preliminary Report by Michelle Karshan on Police Executions & Torture of Criminal Deportees in Haiti 2004-2006
Criminal Deportees are often targeted for execution solely because of tatoos, the way they wear their clothes, gold teeth, and different behavoir and walk
 
 
Brief Overview of Haiti's Recent History
Haiti history for context
 
 
WHERE AM I? A Guide to Adjusting to Haiti Against Your Will (Excerpt)
This manual provides new criminal deportees in Haiti with an orientation on numerous subjects
 
 
Criminal Deportees in Haiti Receive No Food or Water in Jail
Criminal Deportees receive no food or water when imprisoned upon arriving in Haiti
 
 
Photos & Photo Credits
Photos of Alternative Chance and life in Haiti for criminal deportees
 
 
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Our Outcast Youth
Short documentary by David Belle about Alternative Chance as told by three young men
 
 
LINKS
Resources: Our partners and other valuable resources
 
 
Links to Job Training, Job Readiness, and More
Job training, Job readiness, Job resources
 
 
Alternative Chance Haitian Art Gallery
Help support our work by visiting our Haitian Art Gallery
 
 
Are You a United States Citizen?
Comprehensive breakdown by the Florence Project on what makes someone a US citizen
 
 
Women Criminal Deportees in Haiti
International Women's Day and Women Criminal Deportees in Haiti
 
 
May 21, 2007 Advisory on the Continued Detention of Criminal Deportees Arriving in Haiti
Michelle Karshan documents Haiti's continued detention of Haiti's Criminal Deportees
 
 
New life is no life for U.S. ex-cons in Haiti
Chicago Tribune article about criminal deportees in Haiti
 
 
Haitian government announces it will imprison all Criminal Deportees arriving in Haiti
Metropolehaiti, August 16, 2006, Haitian government announces it will put arriving Criminal Deportees in prison
 
 
Overview of Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ Past and Future Activities for Criminal Deportees in Haiti & those Challenging Criminal Deportation to Haiti, October 15, 2007
Priority Issues, Upcoming Family Camp, Collaborations, Human Rights Awards, Annual Benefit
 
 
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ 2nd Annual Awards & Fundraising Dinner
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ to hold annual dinner at Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant in South Beach November 8, 2007
 
 
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ Family Camp
First camp uniting children with their deported parent in Haiti for structured retreat
 
 
Donation/Reservation form
Fill in form to make donation, donate frequent flyer miles, or make reservations for annual dinner
 
 
Cases of Respondents Who Fear Imprisonment as Criminal Deportees to Haiti:
Haitian CAT cases since J-E
 
 

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

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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