Detained Immigrants at GEO Group's Delaney Hall Strike Over Forced Labor and Conditions
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
3d ago· 8 min readenNews
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Summary
300 immigrants detained at GEO Group's Delaney Hall facility in Newark, New Jersey, launched a hunger and labor strike to protest conditions they describe as physical and mental torture. The detainees perform essential facility labor—cooking, cleaning, and repairs—for as little as $1 a day or sometimes for free. The strike targets GEO Group's for-profit business model, which relies on detainee labor to keep overhead low and profits high.
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300 migrants imprisoned in Delaney Hall went on a hunger and labor strike last Friday over conditions they likened to physical and mental torture.
Executives at the for-profit public corporation can keep their overhead low and their profits high by hiring as few employees as possible and shifting essential jobs to people who have no choice but to do them.
Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor strike and a hunger strike, refusing to perform the jobs that keep the place running.
