Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.
Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ on June 3, 2026. An NPR review has found that the grievance system in immigration detention, originally designed as a way to report violations of detention standards, is now barely operational.
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Volunteers say conditions have worsened at the New Jersey detention facility since the hunger strike ended
Advocates for people in ICE detention say they’ve heard complaints of “inedible food” and “limited access or no access to…
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Detainees ended a hunger and labor strike shortly after ICE updated its detention standards
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Advocates outside protested conditions. Detainees inside have staged a hunger strike. And federal officials called in New Jersey…
