Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility are subjected to violent retaliation by guards and ICE agents for participating in hunger and labor strikes.

Guards are beating and attacking strikers at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in New Jersey. "Guards at a New Jersey immigrant detention center are retaliating against detainees for nonviolent protests over poor conditions, including a hunger and labor strike, according to relatives and members of Congress. Staff at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Delaney Hall Detention Facility — a Newark immigration jail operated by the private prison giant GEO Group — took steps to crack down on the strikes, including attacking immigration detainees with pepper spray and batons, transferring protest leaders to other facilities, and shutting down family visitation, advocates and relatives of detainees told The Intercept." https://theintercept.com/2026/05/29/ice-pepper-spray-nj-newark-delaney/

As hundreds of immigrant detainees mark a week of their hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and prison guards are violently retaliating against protesters both inside and outside the facility. The anti-strike crackdown has included attacking detainees with pepper spray and batons, transferring strike leaders out of the facility, and arresting protestors who have gathered outside the jail, which is staffed by private prison company GEO group. In remarks outside Delaney Hall on Thursday, Li Adorno, an organizer with Cosecha New Jersey, said: We are here today because we got information from inside that’s telling us that ICE and GEO are going unit by unit, and they’re dispersing gas, and they’re beating people up. Right now, we have already heard that they have gone through all of the units. This is retaliation for the organizing, for the freedom of speech, that they [the strikers] exercise as they do their hunger strike, as they do their labor strike. https://truthout.org/articles/ice-and-prison-guards-retaliate-against-detainees-and-protestors-at-delaney-hall/