We need to get the Delaney Hall detention center back into the news. Detainees staged a hunger strike and the feds have caused chaos regarding everything.

A timeline of Delaney Hall is in the following article.

How a NJ ICE detention center became the center of national discussion

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NorthJersey.com

May 26, 2026, 11:35 a.m. ET

The reopening of Delaney Hall as a federal immigration detention center in Newark has sparked months of political conflict, protests, legal battles and allegations of abuse, culminating in a hunger strike and clashes outside the facility this week.

Here's a timeline of the events at Delaney Hall leading up to the latest over Memorial Day weekend.

February 2025

In February 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it had reached a 15-year agreement with the GEO Group to make the 1,196-bed Delaney Hall the first detention center to open during President Donald Trump's second term, during which the president has vowed to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants.

ICE spokesperson Christine Cuttitta confirmed in a statement to NorthJersey.com that detainees were brought to the facility, saying, "On February 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered into a contract with the Geo Group to provide detention beds at Delaney Hall with an effective date of March 1, 2025. ICE began housing detainees May 1."

April-May 2025

Two months later, tensions escalated between federal and local officials. In April 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka threatened to padlock the facility, arguing operators lacked required local permits. The dispute triggered an ongoing legal battle between city officials and federal authorities over oversight of the detention center.

GEO Group spokesperson Christopher Ferreira said Delaney Hall has a valid certificate of occupancy issued by Newark and complies with health and safety requirements, and that the attempt by the mayor's office to stop the facility from opening was a political campaign to keep the federal government from arresting, detaining and deporting criminal immigrants.

By May 2025, Delaney Hall officially began housing detained migrants. Concerns over conditions inside the facility quickly followed.

It was also where Baraka was arrested by federal law enforcement in May after accompanying several Congress members on an oversight visit, with one of them, LaMonica McIver, charged with trying to prevent Baraka from being arrested.

June 2025

In June 2025, detainees rioted over alleged food shortages and poor living conditions, leading to violent confrontations with guards. Four detainees escaped during the unrest, prompting heightened security concerns and renewed criticism from immigrant advocacy groups. They were eventually captured.

December 2025

Public scrutiny intensified again in December 2025 after the death of Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old Haitian national detained at Delaney Hall. Brutus died Dec. 12, just one day after arriving a…

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