- 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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