Three hunger strikers at an immigration jail in Adelanto, California, have been moved to solitary confinement in an act of apparent retaliation after meeting with members of Congress last week. Last Monday, California Reps. Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, and Pete Aguilar visited Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center as the hunger strike in the immigration jail entered…
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On Friday, a coalition of over a dozen press freedom groups condemned the May 31 arrests of at least three journalists covering the protests at Delaney Hall immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey, calling for their charges to be dropped. Photojournalists covering the protests say they have been deliberately targeted for assault by ICE agents and police — with at least 42 assaults and five…
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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…
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Around 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and work strike since Friday to protest inhumane conditions and due process violations. Delaney Hall is operated by the private prison company GEO Group. Since the hunger strike was launched, immigration advocates have been staging a solidarity protest outside Delaney Hall to promote the…
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Protests erupted on Sunday night outside of the Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved to transfer a strike leader from the jail. Some 300 detainees launched a hunger and labor strike on Friday in protest of the conditions at the ICE jail. On Sunday, activists and family members learned that the jail was preparing to move Martin…
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Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, began a hunger strike on April 20 in an attempt to assert their rights to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation. Outside the prison, advocates from all over Michigan converged to offer solidarity to those inside and share the strikers’ demands with the wider public.
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