Posted on 06/12/2025 8:31:57 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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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Newark is not a decent place.
They didn’t like the quality and timeliness of the food, so they knocked the wall down.
Poor babies. Haven't been able to use their welfare checks or SNAP cards.
'It's baked slop': Disgusting 'alternative' prison loafs fed to inmates when they misbehavePrisons and jails have served 'the loaf' to unruly inmates, typically for misbehavior
involving food or bodily waste. Its use is on the decline following years of lawsuits
around the country, some equating it to cruel and unusual punishment.Prison officials maintain that the loaf is not meant as punishment. They consider it a
behavioral management tool, used in response to disruptive conduct that threatens
the safety of prison operations. — Daily Mail
Maybe they need to shackle them to the bars in their cages...
Like the old hickory shampoo.
Sounds good. Serve that to them on their breaks while rebuilding that wall.
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