BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall ICE Prisoner Has Died

Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who had diabetes, high blood pressure, and seizures, died on August 1. We're told he was deprived medication at Delaney Hall.

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Status Coup has learned that a Delaney Hall ICE prisoner has died, the second prisoner that we know of who has died while being imprisoned inside the for-profit New Jersey ICE prison.

Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who we’re told had been in America for 20 years and came here as a child, died on Saturday, August 1. He had a 12-year-old daughter.

Status Coup is working to confirm all the details, but here’s what we know so far:

In a video on social media, his mother, María Cornejo, said he suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure, and seizures. Status Coup is told he was deprived of his medication while inside Delaney Hall— an illegal and inhumane crime that Status Coup has extensively reported ON-THE-GROUND at Delaney Hall as occurring to other prisoners.

“I do not want this to go unpunished,” his mother said. She said he called her on Friday, saying he wasn’t feeling well.

“He said his right hand and face were numb. He told me he was going to be examined, but I don’t know if he actually received care. I also don’t know if he was being given his medication.”

An ambulance took him out of Delaney Hall on August 1, and he was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital.

He was detained on June 18 on his way to work. Shortly before his death, he was denied visitation to see his 12-year-old daughter. His mother revealed she still has not received any communication from the for-profit owner of Delaney Hall, GEO Group, or ICE.

This is now the second death of a Delaney Hall prisoner that we know of. In December 2025, Jean Wilson Brutus, a Haitian immigrant, died at Delaney Hall less than 24 hours after being detained. To this day, there has still been no transparency from DHS as to how he died.

Congresswoman Analilia Mejia@RepAnalilia

If reports of a death at Delaney Hall are true, my gravest concerns about the conditions medically vulnerable detainees face would be confirmed. We must ensure DHS carries out a full, transparent investigation. Abolishing and replacing ICE is the only way we correct this horror.

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We will update this story as we learn more information about this prisoner's death.

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