Worms, Forced Labor, a Hunger Strike: Inside New Jersey's ICE Slave Camp

Inside Delaney Hall, a private immigration prison in Newark, New Jersey, detainees are being forced to work for as little as a dollar a day, served food reportedly crawling with worms, denied medical care, and beaten by guards when they went on strike. Most have never been charged with a crime — many were detained at routine immigration check-ins they attended voluntarily.The facility is run by the GEO Group, a private prison corporation operating on an ICE contract worth roughly a billion dollars. Its business model depends on keeping beds full, and detainees report being coerced into a so-called “Voluntary Work Program” under threat of solitary confinement. In February 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in GEO Group v. Menocal that the company can be sued for forced labor under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act; lower courts found ICE never required GEO to force the work or cap pay at a dollar.When demonstrators gathered outside, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill sent hundreds of state police, who fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash-bang grenades and charged protesters on horseback. The ACLU called it a militarized attack on free speech.Sources:https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-jersey-prison-immigrants-strike-ice-trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/protests-ice-immigration-detention-center-new-jerseyhttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/mikie-sherrill-police-newark-ice-protests-20260531.htmlhttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/justices-reject-fast-appeal-in-geo-1-per-day-forced-labor-case Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe