ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says
Source: The Star-Ledger
About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.
Mustafa Cetin, an immigration lawyer who represents a detainee inside the private, contracted jail on Doremus Avenue, said his client told him that simmering dissatisfaction over the quality and timeliness of meals in the facility boiled over late Thursday afternoon.
“It’s about the food, and some of the detainees were getting aggressive and it turned violent,” Cetin said. “Based on what he told me it was an outer wall, not very strong, and they were able to push it down.”
Cetin said his client described the inmates being in an a third-floor dormitory and also had bed sheets hung in an apparent escape attempt. His client also smelled gas.
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