Delaney Hall
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Interactive map of Delaney Hall | |
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| Status | Open |
| Security class | Minimum–medium |
| Capacity | 1,196 |
| Opened | 2011–2017 2023 (closed) 2025 (re-opened) |
| Managed by | GEO Group |
| Part of a series on the |
| Immigration policy of the second Trump administration |
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Delaney Hall is a facility used for immigrant detention in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The private prison is managed by the GEO Group under contract for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which awarded GEO Group a US$1 billion contract for 15 years. Delaney Hall previously held immigrant detainees from 2011 to 2017. The facility re-opened in 2025 and has an authorized capacity of up to 1,196.
It is the largest facility of its type on the East Coast of the United States and the largest of the two in New Jersey, the other being the Elizabeth Detention Center. Both facilities are located near Newark Liberty International Airport and are used for the entire New York metropolitan area. It is located in an industrial area of Newark, neighbored by a natural-gas plant, a sewage-treatment facility, and an animal-fat–rendering plant amongst other facilities.
Delaney Hall has received significant media attention due to the arrest of the mayor of Newark during an oversight visit, poor facility living conditions and allegations of abuse by guards, a death in the facility as well as multiple hospitalizations, and detainee escapes from the facility over allegations of poor conditions. Detainees held a 30-day hunger strike which led to an escalation of protests outside the facility, leading to violent clashes between ICE agents and protesters blocking vehicles from entering the facility, as well as arrests of protesters and journalists and retaliation against strikers inside the facility.