Expired food, neglected medical care and hunger strike allegations fuel protests at N.J. ICE facility

Days of protests outside a New Jersey immigration detention center, including clashes with federal law enforcement, continued Tuesday as demonstrators and lawmakers allege the facility, where detainees waged a hunger strike, has inedible food and lacks access to medical care

Days of protests outside a New Jersey immigration detention center, including clashes with federal law enforcement, continued Tuesday as demonstrators and lawmakers allege the facility, where detainees waged a hunger strike, has inedible food and lacks access to medical care.

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Selenia Destefani, the managing attorney for Nova Law Group, which she said represents dozens of detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, told NBC News on Tuesday that her clients have been given expired food and meals with worms in them. Destefani said some detainees engaged in a hunger strike over the weekend over the conditions. Some, she said, have since been placed in solitary confinement or transferred to other facilities.

She said some of her clients have been released in recent months because they were not receiving medication or treatment for cancer, diabetes, depression and other conditions.