Q&A on the News

Q: There was a little boy from Haiti who was in Atlanta for surgery before the earthquake there. What happened to the little boy?

—Sylvia Copeland, Decatur

A: Michael Lucien was doing well when a pediatric nurse from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta visited him in January 2012, Alison Fussell, the executive director of Childspring International, told Q&A on the News. Lucien was 4 years old then and is now 5, Fussell said. "He's growing, and his family is back in their home," she said. "The family sent photos of him dressed up in a suit, standing next to his sister." Childspring International has used Lucien's photo for one of its postcards. The nurse expects to see him again when she returns to Haiti in February, Fussell said. Lucien was 2 when he was brought to Atlanta for major intestinal surgery in 2009, before an earthquake struck the country in January 2010. He stayed with host families until his family in Haiti could be located.

Q: A recent AJC article about Andrea Sneiderman being transferred to Arrendale State Prison stated that there was room for 1,476 women there. How many women are in the prison and what is the ethnic makeup of the prisoners.

—Bobby Cochran, McDonough

A: There are 1,442 female prisoners in Arrendale State Prison in the Northeast Georgia town of Alto, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The racial breakdown: 53.3 percent are white, 43.8 percent are black, 2 percent are Hispanic; 0.4 percent are Asian and 0.1 percent are Native American. Sneiderman was convicted Aug. 19 of nine of 13 felony charges related to the 2010 death of her husband, Rusty.