The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is set to announce his city’s legal strategy aimed at shutting down the Delaney Hall ICE jail. The for-profit immigration detention center has been the focus of massive protests demanding justice for immigrants, who’ve launched a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions and medical neglect inside the jail, while demanding their freedom. On Monday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said his city’s police department will exercise a greater “span of control” over the perimeter of Delaney Hall, after federal agents and New Jersey State Police repeatedly attacked demonstrators outside with horses, clubs, pepper spray and other so-called less lethal weapons. In a statement, Mayor Baraka said, “The police tactics over this last weekend were overly aggressive, unnecessary, and in some instances unconstitutional.” But the mayor said a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew would remain in effect until further notice.
Newark Mayor Baraka Set to Announce Legal Strategy to Shut Down Delaney Hall











