BREAKING: 400 Delaney Hall ICE Prisoners TRANSFERRED OUT in Retaliation for Protests

Our Jordan Chariton is LIVE from Delaney Hall ICE prison for emergency press conference as 400+ plus prisoners have been transferred out over the last 48 hours amid ongoing hunger strike

WE HAVE BEEN LIVE ON THE GROUND ALL 19 DAYS of the Delaney Hall ICE prison hunger strike and protests. Our crew HAS BEEN INJURED while being shot at by flash bang grenades, tear gas, pepper balls, rubber bullets, pepper spray—and rushed at by police horses. We’ve been THREATENED WITH ARREST for broadcasting live—and REFUSED to leave. We CAN NOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE without gaining at least 100 paid members over the next few days. PLEASE SUPPORT US for as low as $5 bucks a month (16 cents a day).

Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton is LIVE ON-THE-GROUND at Delaney Hall ICE prison (WATCH & SHARE STREAM ABOVE) as anti-Delaney Hall organizers, loved ones of prisoners, faith leaders, and immigrant rights’ activists hold an emergency press conference on Day 20 of the ongoing Delaney Hall ICE prison hunger strike & labor strike.

Although the hunger strike is dwindling, lead organizers tell Status Coup there are still a small group of prisoners abstaining from eating—and a large number of prisoners still engaging in a labor strike (the latter of which is infuriating the for-profit prison operator GEO Group, forcing it to have to pay vendors to replace the work prisoners are refusing to do).

**GEO Group made $254 million in profit in 2025 thanks to ICE camps like Delaney Hall**

This emergency press conference is being held in response to hundreds of prisoners —who have still yet to go before a judge or obtain any due process—being transferred out of Delaney Hall over the last 48 hours (starting overnight two nights ago). Anti-Delaney Hall organizers estimate at least 400 prisoners have been transferred out over the last 48 hours in retaliation of the ongoing protests happening outside Delaney Hall. Sources tell Status Coup many of those prisoners—the majority of them men but some also being women—have been transferred to ICE prisons in Louisiana, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere…

With their families having no idea where they have been taken.

As a result of the mass transfers/abduction, female prisoners who had ended their hunger strike are now pledging to re-launch the strike in opposition to these mass transfers. There is also concern among some organizers that, in addition to these prisoners being transferred by ICE as a form of retaliation against the ongoing protests outside the prison—ICE may be trying to create space in Delaney Hall in preparation for an escalation in raids/abductions in the tri-state area ahead of the World Cup (which starts at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Saturday June 13th).

Read below from a press release from Eyes On ICE with full details:

“Last night [June 9th] members of the coalition started hearing that at least 5 member of unit 1 (the women’s unit) were being transferred. We later learned that they were being transferred to Colorado. Later in the night members began hearing about people in the men’s units being transferred. We believe as many as 90 people were transferred. We know of 11 women who were transferred last Saturday are in the Richwood facility in Louisiana. At about 12:30pm two large transport vans left the facility.

The women who are left are very upset about the transfers and have committed to renewing their hunger and labor strike starting today. Dozens of the women have committed to participating. They are particularly upset about the recent transfers. One of the women refused to go and was forcibly taken out in handcuffs.

These are their demands-

• Release all the women, with priority given to women under the age of 21, women with medical conditions, and mothers.

• Initiate and carry to completion independent investigations of all allegations of abuse. Women report that they have made multiple complaints of sexual abuse against a female officer.

• Immediately restore all visitation privileges so that mothers, daughters, and family members can maintain meaningful contact with their loved ones.

• Expand access to legal representation and support. Many women detained at Delaney Hall face complex immigration proceedings without attorneys or adequate legal assistance. Continued pro bono legal representation is needed to ensure individuals have meaningful access to due process.

• GEO must contract cleaning services, so that people are not threatened to do labor for the benefit of a multibillion dollar corporation.

• GEO must immediately hire new qualified medical staff including nurses and doctors available 24/7 to respond to emergencies. Nurses mistreat people and give people incorrect medications medical attention is routinely denied.

• GEO must immediately replace its current food supplier to meet basic nutritional and health standards. This includes providing healthy high quality meals that accommodate medical, religious, and dietary needs.

• GEO must repair the plumbing and HVAC in particular the second bathroom in the women’s unit and all bathrooms of the facility. In addition to ventilation, air conditioning/circulation, water temperature controls, and drinking water systems.

• GEO must provide safe drinking water. If safe drinking water cannot be guaranteed through faucets and water fountains, then bottled water should be brought into the units and made available through the commissary.

• GEO is responsible for providing staff training, accountability systems and oversight, and security personnel changes to ensure dignified treatment of detained people”

We have been LIVE ON THE GROUND EVERY DAY of the now 20-day ICE prisoner hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall. Working 18 hour days on little sleep, we have been shot at, tear gassed, violently pushed into oncoming truck traffic by ICE, and live-streamed for well over 35 hours over just a few days. Meanwhile, we ROUTINELY see MAINSTREAM MEDIA “journalist” sitting in the safety of there cars—waiting to go live on their networks and PRETEND they have been braving the violence.

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