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Protests and arrests escalate outside New Jersey immigration detention centre

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 06:17 · 1 min read

Clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed private immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, have intensified since late May, with more than 80 people arrested amid protests against the Trump administration's immigration policies. Detainees inside the facility — operated by GEO Group (a major private prison contractor) — allege poor living conditions including mouldy food, overcrowding, and denial of medication, claims the Trump administration has dismissed; the New Jersey attorney general has since filed a lawsuit against GEO Group for allegedly obstructing state health inspections. The unrest has prompted New Jersey's governor to deploy state police, Newark's mayor to impose a curfew, and raised press freedom concerns after a law enforcement officer was charged with stealing camera equipment from an injured Associated Press photojournalist covering the protests.

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