{"id":221,"date":"2026-05-29T19:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:43:03","slug":"ice-and-prison-guards-retaliate-against-detainees-and-protestors-at-delaney-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"ICE and Prison Guards Retaliate Against Detainees and Protestors at Delaney Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news \u2014 make a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> to Truthout today!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=219\">Jury Awards $50 Million to Family of Woman Killed in Boeing Crash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>In remarks outside Delaney Hall on Thursday, Li Adorno, an organizer with Cosecha New Jersey, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are here today because we got information from inside that\u2019s telling us that ICE and GEO are going unit by unit, and they\u2019re dispersing gas, and they\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He condemned New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) for only visiting the site once, after four days of protest, and for not launching an investigation into the conditions at jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very infuriating that we let ICE and GEO do whatever the hell they want. It\u2019s infuriating to see humanity die inside when these ICE agents are teargassing indiscriminately against people who are exercising their constitutional rights,\u201d Adorno said.<\/p>\n<p>A GEO Group spokesperson confirmed to <em>The Intercept<\/em> that staff used \u201cchemical agents\u201d on Delaney detainees on Thursday, but did not comment on the question of retaliation. <\/p>\n<p>North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America, which has been participating in the protests, also criticized the governor for her lack of action. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on Gov. Mikie Sherrill to call off the state police, who are currently blocking off road access to Delaney Hall, to return to Delaney Hall to meet with the strikers, and to use her office to take real action towards closing the facility,\u201d the organization said in a statement to <em>Truthout<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Alvarez, an activist who has demonstrated outside Delaney Hall every day since the protests began, told <em>Truthout<\/em> that the goal of the protests was initially to \u201chalt any transfers\u201d of detainees. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=217\">Netanyahu Says Israeli Military to Take Over 70 Percent of Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first day that ICE showed up to Delaney Hall was Sunday, when protesters were holding a children\u2019s rally outside the jail in solidarity with the detained and their families, Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were people performing for the children, playing guitars,\u201d he said. \u201cI remember having a box of Capri Sun in one hand, and a slice of pizza in another, when people started blowing the whistles that ICE had just showed up.\u201d He and others quickly moved to form a human chain to block ICE from moving forward \u2014 only for ICE to throw protestors to the ground, breaking up the line they had formed. <\/p>\n<p>ICE escalated their violence the next day, Alvarez said, with agents taunting protesters, using pepper spray, and shooting pepper bullets. \u201cMy hands are up, and I\u2019m telling them, my hands are up, my hands are up.\u201d But an ICE agent still \u201ccharges at me and hits me with his baton, in my neck,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized things were escalating, and since then, things have only continued to escalate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said that he spoke with activists in Minnesota and Chicago who had seen his videos from the protests and noted how violent the ICE agents were, even compared with their own experiences. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite all this, there is an immense amount of support from the community,\u201d he said. The demands of the detainees must be met, he concluded \u2014 and Delaney Hall must be closed down. <\/p>\n<p>Detention Watch Network released a statement in support of the protests on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s cruel mass detention expansion is exacerbating the inhumane conditions that are inherent to ICE\u2019s detention system and have been well documented for decades,\u201d the organization said. \u201cOver the past year, there have been increasing reports of death, medical neglect, use of force, isolation, retaliation, overcrowding, lack of food, and rampant transfers that cut people off from their loved ones and support networks. A shocking 18 people have died in ICE custody this calendar year \u2014 and 49 people total have died under this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 200 people still on hunger and labor strike in Delaney Hall, 20 people have also launched a hunger strike in an ICE jail in Adelanto, California, the organization noted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hunger strikers at Adelanto and Delaney Hall are bravely calling attention to a long-known truth: Immigration detention as a whole is unnecessary, rife with systemic abuses and completely arbitrary \u2013 full stop,\u201d said Nanci Palacios Godinez, membership and organizing director at Detention Watch Network. \u201cPeople in immigration detention are describing it as \u2018hell on earth\u2019 because it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should suffer in these conditions,\u201d she went on. \u201cImmigrants are our family members, neighbors, friends, and coworkers \u2013 worthy of dignity and respect regardless of where they came from or how they arrived in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=215\">A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICE and prison guards have escalated their attacks on detainees and activists at Delaney immigrant jail in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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