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ICE Breaks Up Newark Hunger Strike By Shipping Strikers Out

June 17, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
The people locked inside Delaney Hall stopped eating, and they stopped working. ICE answered with tear gas, beatings and night transfers — a fleet of vans moving in the dark so no one outside could see. It did not work. As the strike entered its fourth week, nearly 40 women held in Unit 1 of the Newark immigration jail announced on June 11 that they were joining — issuing their own demands and reopening a fight the government had spent the previous week trying to disperse across the country. The strike began May 22, when more than 300 people detained at Delaney Hall signed an open letter and launched a combined hunger and labor strike.

Women Join Hunger And Labor Strike At Delaney Hall ICE Jail

June 16, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , , , ,
Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of gender-specific demands as the strike enters its fourth week. On June 11, dozens of women detained in unit 1 of the jail announced that they were joining the hunger strike. Their demands include improving conditions in the facility; the release of female detainees, beginning with those who are under 21 years old, mothers, and women with medical conditions; and the firing of a guard who they say has sexually assaulted at least 10 women detained in the facility.

Chris Hedges: The Fight To Save America

June 12, 2026 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. , , , ,
The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts and unleash on protesters outside the gates the sadism practiced on those incarcerated inside Delaney Hall. The worst is not the tear gas, the tasers, the pepper spray or the dozens of arrests. The worst is not the beatings and the riot shields, raised above the heads of New Jersey State Police and Newark police and brought down swiftly on bodies, leaving severe lacerations. The worst is watching the children.

Lawsuits Claim Cruel Conditions At Delaney Hall

June 6, 2026 Jose Pagliery, Not Us. , , , ,
Newark, N.J. — A woman says in court papers that guards starved her for five days straight. A man claims “conditions violate basic standards of human dignity.” And several plead for help as the drinking water tastes like “raw sewage.” The mistreatment of immigrant detainees that has led to daily protests outside a privately-run ICE jail in New Jersey is laid bare in lawsuits describing deplorable conditions as well as first-hand accounts of wretched treatment some believe is intentionally cruel. NOTUS visited the site on Thursday just as the Delaney Hall detention facility released Emanuel Rodrigues, a Brazilian man with a rare life-threatening medical condition, who spent what he says were 130 excruciating days in solitary confinement — labeled “medical isolation” by officials.

Fight To Close Delaney Hall Has Reignited The Movement Against ICE

June 5, 2026 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , ,
A new front has opened up in the nationwide resistance to Trump’s war on immigrants… New Jersey. Buried deep in the industrial arteries of Newark — an area referred to by residents as the “Chemical Corridor” where the air smells of sewage and toxic waste — is the one-year-old ICE detention center, Delaney Hall. Community organizations have been fighting to close Delaney Hall since before it even opened. In the last week of May, that fight escalated when around 300 immigrants imprisoned inside the detention center launched a hunger and labor strike to demand their freedom.

Loved Ones, Supporters Of Striking Immigrants Rally Around The Clock

May 30, 2026 Talia Jane, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
More than 300 people detained inside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center are on a work and hunger strike, demanding that Gov. Mikie Sherrill visit the facility and meet with them. For months, immigrants detained inside the facility have drawn attention to Delaney’s inhumane conditions. They officially launched their strike on May 22, 2026, calling for freedom for everyone detained in the facility and especially the immediate release of vulnerable people, including children, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions.

Protesters Confront ICE In Support Of Hunger And Labor Strike

May 27, 2026 Samuel Karlin and Emma Lee, Left Voice. , , , , , ,
More than 300 people locked inside of Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, have been on hunger and labor strike since Friday demanding their freedom. The strike follows the release of an open letter drawing attention to the inhumane conditions inside the 1,000-bed facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group. Delaney Hall was reopened under Trump’s second term as part of his administration’s war on immigrants, despite the protests of the local community. The inhumane conditions at the facility, which caused the death of Haitian immigrant Jean Wilson Brutus late last year, include poor nutrition and medical treatment — particularly for children and people with disabilities — and lack of translation services.

CMB Newark Statement On The Delaney Hall Uprising

June 18, 2025 Community Movement Builders - Newark, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
On Thursday, June 12th, 50 kidnapped immigrants revolted against their inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall, a private detention facility operated by GEO Group in Newark. By the time the tear gas settled, captives had torn down a wall, family visitation was cancelled, and protestors mobilized to interrupt facility operations from the outside. At least four captives successfully liberated themselves from their unjust detention. At the time of this writing, the actions of those inside, supported by solidarity actions on the outside, have increased the urgency in calls to shut Delaney down.

‘Freedom Ride’ Caravan Launched In Defense Of Immigrant Rights

June 16, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
This past weekend, dozens of artists, activists, and faith leaders hit the road with the “Freedom Ride” caravan in response to the Trump administration’s broad attacks on democratic rights, including ICE raids that have sparked nationwide protests. The caravan departed on Sunday, June 8, from the controversial Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, and has since made stops in Washington, DC as well as Durham and Charlotte in North Carolina. In the next few days, the caravan convened by IFCO/Pastors for Peace, the Interfaith Center of New York, the People’s Forum, and the Riverside Church, will continue onto Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama, to finally end up in Jena, Louisiana – outside of the ICE detention facility where pro-Palestine activist and Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil has been detained for months.

ICE Detainees At Delaney Hall Rise Up Over Inhumane Conditions

June 15, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
Reports indicate that around 50 detainees at Delaney Hall, Trump’s newly opened ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, staged an uprising against inhumane conditions on Thursday, June 13. According to reports by New Jersey law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, and detainees’ lawyers, four men escaped the facility amid the unrest. There had reportedly been discontent at the ICE detention facility for days due to inhumane conditions, including reports of insufficient food, scalding hot undrinkable tap water, and lack of staff. “We had some members of our community come out and tell us that their family members were not being given food,” said immigrant rights organizer Ana Paola Pazmiño, the executive director of Resistencia en Accion NJ.

New Jersey’s Movement Against ICE Detention Is Not Going Away

June 1, 2025 Sam Carliner, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction. The air smells like sewage and the roads surrounding the center are constantly filled with truckers driving around. None of this has deterred activists from holding daily vigils outside of Delaney Hall. These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month. By now, the existence of Delaney Hall has become national news following the high-profile arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
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