Inside Delaney Hall’s Black Box

A Mother Jones investigation chronicles the secrecy surrounding GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark, where families seeking to visit detained relatives have been turned away without notice. One woman drove nearly two hours only to learn the multibillion-dollar ICE contractor had canceled visitation for the day; she sat on the curb and cried before driving home. The reporting documents how restricted information and access have compounded a weeks-long hunger strike over conditions inside the 1,000-bed facility.