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Kim and U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez , a fellow New Jersey Democrat, were at Delaney Hall Friday for a briefing on Thursday night’s incident where inmates pushed through a wall and told reporters that there would be “major detainee movements out of this facility.”
Kim did not say how many detainees would be moved and where they would be transferred.
"We are now going to try to get full confirmation from ICE headquarters about what is the future of this facility and whether or not they’re going to shut it down," Kim said Friday.
Inmates at the facility pushed down a wall on Thursday night after frustrations boiled over about delayed meals, an attorney for one of the inmates told NJ Advance Media.
A lawyer for an inmate who was not involved in the incident but is being held at Delaney Hall said that the issue the inmates were upset about was food.
It’s about the food, and some of the detainees were getting aggressive and it turned violent," attorney Mustafa Cetin said. "Based on what he told me it was an outer wall, not very strong, and they were able to push it down.
The wall that was breached Thursday night The drywall with a mesh interior described by Kim was used by detainees.
He said that the four detainees that escaped went through the wall and into the parking lot where they jumped over a fence.
Kim criticized the condition of the facility for housing and supporting detainees in his comments on Friday.
"It shows just how shoddy the construction was here, what happens when we are paying billions of dollars for for-profit prisons that are skirting the responsibilities they have and try to pocket as much of that money as possible," Kim said.
Delaney Hall is operated by the GEO Group, a private company contracted by the federal government.
GEO Group was awarded a $1 billion, 15-year contract to operate Delaney Hall in February.
The Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment on whether detainees will be moved out of Delaney Hall. A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement pushed questions to DHS.
Regular demonstrations at Delaney Hall have drawn activists and politicians, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Baraka who was arrested at the facility in May and charged with trespassing.
The federal charges were quickly dropped , but U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver , D-10th Dist., was charged last week with felony assault after she tried to protect Baraka from being arrested by federal agents.
Outside Delaney Hall on Friday evening, there were about three dozen people from groups that hold regular protests there.
Just after 9 p.m., a crowd of protesters blocked an SUV from exiting an auxiliary gate at Delaney Hall, forcing it to back up through the gate, which then closed, an NJ Advance Media reporter witnessed.
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