- New Jersey health officials have filed a lawsuit demanding "immediate entry" to the Delaney Hall immigration detention center, citing fears of disease outbreaks and inadequate medical care.
- The lawsuit follows inspectors being denied full access to the facility, including medical units and sleeping areas, despite growing complaints from detainees and lawyers.
- Detainees at Delaney Hall have been on a nearly two-week-long hunger strike, protesting alleged rotting food, due process violations, lack of legal counsel and retaliation from ICE agents for their ongoing strike actions.
- Concerns include reports of high COVID-19 and flu spread, untreated conditions for detainees with serious illnesses and a pregnant detainee allegedly denied full obstetrics care.
- The facility, operated by GEO Group, faces daily protests, calls from officials such as Gov. Mikie Sherrill to close it and recent clashes between protesters and law enforcement that resulted in 61 arrests.
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