Criminal Justice

Sherrill Calls For Delaney Hall Immigrant Detention Center Shutdown

By Devon Williams and Miniya Malone (NJ State House News Service) New Jersey’s Gov. Mikie Sherrill continued to condemn the mass immigrant detention center Delaney Hall on Thursday, following a press conference in Trenton. “I’d like to see it shut down,” said Sherrill regarding the divisive center in Newark that has been the site of […]

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