Newark officials inspect ICE detention center, won’t say what they found

A team of inspectors from the City of Newark on Monday toured the immigrant detention center where the mayor was arrested on May 9, though the facility’s owner-operator denied access to the city’s fire official and deputy public safety director.

City officials declined to say what the inspectors found during the hourlong tour of Delaney Hall, a private jailhouse near Newark Liberty International Airport owned and operated as a detention center by the GEO Group of Boca Ratón, Florida, under a 15-year, $1 billion contract with ICE.

City officials said four construction code officers and two health inspectors entered the facility just after 7 a.m. on Monday. The four code officers exited the facility together about an hour later, though it was unclear when the health inspectors left…

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