Haina

Centro de Retencion Haina (Centro Vacacional de Haina)

Status

In use

2024

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Director General de Migracion

Management: Director General de Migracion (Governmental)

Detains: Not Available

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Dominican Republic

665

Refugees

2,563

Asylum Applications

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The Haina detention centre (Centro de Retención) is an administrative immigration detention centre that confines undocumented migrants who are to be deported. It also temporarily detains Dominicans who have been deported back to the country for security checks.

FACILITY NAMES
Centro de Retencion Haina (Centro Vacacional de Haina)

Alternative Names: El Centro de Acogida de Migracion

Location

Country: Dominican Republic

City & Region: Haina, Americas

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status

Status In use

2024

Status In use

2023

Status In use

2022
Facility type

Category Filter Administrative

Type Immigration detention centre

2022
National typology

Name Centro de Acogida (Reception Centre)

2022
Management

Name Director General de Migracion

Type Governmental

2023
Custodial Authorities

Agency Director General de Migracion

Ministry Ministry of Interior and Police

Ministry Typology Internal or Public Security

2023

DETAINEES

Countries of Origin

Country #1 Haiti

2022

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FACILITY BLOG

2024

Once a month, the Promotion of Support for Haitian and Dominican Immigrants of Haitian Descent (PAYIDAH) provides humanitarian support to Haitians held in Haina. PAYIDAH claims migrants can spend days in Haina without being able to get assistance from their families or their lawyers.

According to the , "People spend days in Haina without being able to get assistance from their families or their lawyers."

2024

Email Testimony sent to Global Detention Project (24 May 2024): "This morning he was picked up by immigration and is being held in a horrible place southwest of Santa Domingo called Haina. He is very traumatized by the experience, and the deplorable conditions. The police throughout the country take Haitian's phones and ask for him to pay to get it back or they will be deported. They are also doing this in the jail. This kind of extortion is very common with the police in the DR. Our friend is frightened to be there, especially through the night. He has no idea what will happen to him, how long he will be held, if he will be deported back to the killing fields of Haiti or left for dead somewhere in the mountains."