Words From Inside NJ & NY's ICE Facilities (April 2021)

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH ICE IN NY AND NJ? The first COVID-19 case in an ICE facility was at Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, NJ. Bergen County Jail is just one out of four ICE facilities in NJ. Bergen, Essex and Hudson counties each have a contract with ICE in which ICE pays each county between $110 and $120/day for every immigrant detained, a disproportionate amount of whom are Black and Brown. The fourth facility is the Elizabeth Detention Center, which is run by the private for-profit company CoreCivic, but owned by a local company, The Elberon Development Group.

The pandemic, coupled with the inhumane conditions inside, such as a rat infestation, 2