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Delaney Hall ICE Overview

Delaney Hall Detention Facility is a civil immigration detention facility at 451 Doremus Avenue in Newark. It is close to Essex County Correctional Facility, but it is a separate custody system. Essex County jail custody is run by the Essex County Department of Corrections. Northern State Prison is run by NJDOC. Delaney Hall is operated by GEO Group under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The facility holds adult immigration detainees in ICE custody. Those detainees are not searched through the Essex County inmate lookup and are not searched through NJDOC Offender Search unless there is a separate state-prison record. Delaney Hall's role is immigration detention and ICE processing. Family members, legal representatives, and advocates should separate the immigration-custody question from any county criminal case, state sentence, or federal BOP record.

Delaney Hall Detention Capacity

Current ICE and GEO reopening sources describe Delaney Hall as having about 1,000 immigration-detention beds. Older public references may cite different historical figures, so the 1,000-bed description should be treated as the current source-supported capacity context rather than a guarantee of the daily count. Research did not locate a public live daily detainee census for Delaney Hall.

The facility's population should not be folded into the Essex County jail population. The county jail holds pretrial detainees, county sentenced people, short-sentence populations, and some contract or parole-violation populations. Delaney Hall holds adult immigration detainees under ICE authority. That distinction controls the locator, records route, visitation rules, and legal channels.

Search Delaney Hall Detainees

Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for Delaney Hall detainees. ICE ODLS is a JavaScript-required federal locator and is separate from the Essex County jail lookup. Research could not inspect all live ODLS fields from the page text capture, but the standard use is immigration detainee lookup, not county booking lookup and not a mugshot search.

1. Open ICE ODLS for immigration detention lookup.
2. Search with identifying information available from ICE paperwork, counsel, or family records.
3. Confirm whether the result points to Delaney Hall or another ICE detention location.
4. Use Delaney Hall or ICE facility channels for visits, legal access, and current custody details.
5. If the person is not in ICE custody, check Essex County jail, NJDOC, BOP, or court records based on the case.

ICE ODLS is not a general Essex County arrest record system. A person arrested locally may move through county booking, state court, federal court, or immigration custody depending on the facts. If the person may be in county custody, use Essex County Correctional Facility channels instead.

Delaney Hall Contact

Research identifies two facility information lines reported in ICE materials. Because phone listings can change during reopening, inspection, or contract updates, verify the line before relying on it for time-sensitive travel or legal-access planning. Use ICE or GEO facility materials for current hours, visit rules, and attorney scheduling.

Legal representatives should use ICE or GEO legal-visit channels rather than county jail visitation procedures. Immigration custody also has different records rules from county OPRA requests. A New Jersey court file, a county jail booking record, an ICE detainee locator result, and a federal immigration file can all exist for the same person, but they are not maintained by the same office.

Delaney Hall Detainee Visits

GEO's facility page says support services for ICE include in-person and virtual legal and family visitation. ICE materials also reference facility-specific visitation and advocate information. The research did not capture a full public schedule table comparable to the Essex County jail or NJDOC Northern State Prison schedules, so visits should be confirmed through the facility before travel.

Do not use Essex County Correctional Facility's building schedule for Delaney Hall. The two facilities are nearby, but they have different operators and different legal authority. ICE detention visits may also be affected by transfer, removal proceedings, attorney access rules, health restrictions, or security status.

Delaney Hall Services

GEO's public facility page describes several services at Delaney Hall as operator claims. It says services for ICE include around-the-clock access to medical care, general and legal library access, dietician-approved meals, religious and specialty diets, recreation, religious practice opportunities, and legal and family visitation. GEO also says its ICE processing centers are independently ACA accredited.

The research did not identify a stable public commissary or money-deposit fee schedule for Delaney Hall comparable to the county jail kiosk or NJDOC ViaPath pages. Detainee funds and property questions should be routed to current ICE or facility instructions rather than copied from Essex County DOC or NJDOC.

Delaney Hall ICE Intake

Delaney Hall intake is immigration-detention intake, not county jail booking. ICE may place a person in custody after immigration processing, transfer from another detention location, release from another criminal justice system, or a separate immigration enforcement action. A county booking number, SBI number, BOP register number, or municipal complaint number may not find a person in ICE ODLS unless the ICE locator accepts the identifying data being used.

The word detainee is important. Immigration detention is civil custody under federal immigration authority. It is not the same as a county pretrial detainee held on criminal charges, and it is not the same as a sentenced state prisoner. This distinction affects visit rights, counsel access, records requests, release pathways, and which office can answer a question.

Delaney Hall Conditions Context

Delaney Hall has been the subject of recent official attention. ICE ODO inspection materials exist for an August 26-28, 2025 inspection. On June 2, 2026, a New Jersey Governor and Attorney General release said Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a lawsuit against GEO Group seeking full New Jersey Department of Health access to Delaney Hall amid concerns about inhumane and unsanitary conditions. That statement is a legal and oversight development, not a custody lookup tool.

Conditions material should be read with the source in mind. GEO describes services and accreditation claims from the operator side. ICE inspection records describe federal detention oversight. The New Jersey lawsuit describes the state's effort to obtain health-department access. None of those sources replaces ICE ODLS for a detainee lookup, but together they explain why families, counsel, and advocates may want current facility confirmation before visits or document delivery.

The practical point for families and legal representatives is that Delaney Hall's rules and access conditions may be closely scrutinized and may change. Verify current visit, legal-access, phone, mail, property, and custody rules through ICE or the facility before acting on older information. Keep records of the date, time, person spoken with, and instructions given.