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Inside the ICE Detention Center That Opened Over a Mayor’s Arrest and a City’s Lawsuit

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On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside Delaney Hall. This ICE detention center had quietly reopened just days earlier under a $1 billion federal contract with private prison giant GEO Group. Baraka was there to join three members of Congress—Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez Jr., and LaMonica McIver—on an oversight visit. They we…

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