Why detainees are on strike at the GEO Group-operated ICE prison Delaney Hall

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New Jersey Congressmember Analilia Mejía describes what she saw at Delaney Hall, an ICE facility in Newark owned and operated by the private prison company GEO Group, where hundreds of immigrant detainees have been on a hunger and labor strike for the past week demanding their immediate release.

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