Person "X" worked for a funeral home in Les Cayes in the late 1990s. He served as a driver and general assistant. One day, he awoke to find his neighbor dead -- the family wailing helplessly over the body. X decided that he could aid the family by removing the dead to the funeral home for them. So, X did this.
Not long after X arrived at the funeral home with the deceased, the HNP caught wind of his criminal act. They clapped handcuffs on him and hauled him off to court. Being a poorly paid driver in a very poor country, X could not afford representation or bribe money.
The presiding judge deemed X's crime, moving a body before a judge arrived to declare it officially dead (think of the coroner's song in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy's house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East), punishable by 2 years in the Cayes prison. So X spent two years of his youth in a 20x10 foot prison cell along with 5 to 15 other guys.
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