Ricardo Kaulessar

1 week ago | northjersey.com | Ricardo Kaulessar

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New Jersey Legislature has yet to pass a bill introduced in 2019 calling for the formation of a state reparations task force.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ricardo Kaulessar

One prisoner at Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention center in Newark, did not receive her dose of medication for three or four days. And when her husband drove the long distance from Connecticut to visit her — he was turned away.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ricardo Kaulessar

The four escapees from Delaney Hall in Newark were charged in separate complaints on June 17, according to the interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba. Habba announced that Franklin Norberto Bautista Reyes, 20, of Honduras, Joan Sebastian Castaneda Lozada, 18, of Colombia, Andres Felipe Pineda Mogollon, 25, of Colombia, and Joel Enrrique Sandoval-Lopez, 22, of Honduras, were charged by four separate complaints with escape from the custody of an institution or officer.

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Eduardo Cuevas |Ricardo Kaulessar |Hannan Adely

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration could keep Mahmoud Khalil in custody under a secondary legal argument. On June 13, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, of New Jersey, rejected the 30-year-old Palestinian Columbia University graduate's request to be released after three months in immigration detention. On June 11, Farbiarz initially ruled Khalil couldn't be detained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's determination that he threatened American foreign policy interests.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ricardo Kaulessar

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking the public's help in finding four detainees who escaped from Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention center in Newark, after an uprising inside the facility on June 12. "DHS has become aware of 4 detainees at the privately held Delaney Hall Detention Facility escaping," said an emailed statement to NorthJersey.com credited to a "Senior DHS Official. The email said that "additional law enforcement partners" have been brought in.