the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Hackensack NJ, at least eight immigrants being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Bergen County Jail in New Jersey are participating in a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility and demand to be released. Local activists say the hunger strike is in its 18th day. ICE would not comment on how long the immigrants have stopped eating. Family members and activists who have spoken to detainees claim conditions inside the facility are “dire.”
With more than 280 Correction Officers and 1,150 beds, this around-the-clock operation is one of the state’s finest correctional facilities.
The major operational management philosophy utilized within the Bergen County Jail is Direct Supervision Management. Direct Supervision, utilizing the principals of direct officer to inmate interface and barrier free design, has proven to be an effective method of control, improving supervision, reducing violence, ensuring a safer more humane environment for both inmates and staff while keeping the cost to the taxpayers down.
Technology is state-of-the-art in the facility, featuring computer control of all inmate housing areas, an integrated perimeter security system, a site-wide duress/panic alarm system and a computerized Center Control.
The facility is designed and is operated in accordance with constitutional standards, to meet accreditation set by the American Correctional Association and the New Jersey State Department of Corrections. In addition, the Jail meets standards for health care established by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.
Wow! What a concept, brake the law and serve jail time. It would be less expensive to send them back to their homeland.
Remember Bobby Sands. 74 days.
Nobody in the picture looks like they go hungry.
The protest doesn’t look peaceful.
No ICE contract leads to layoffs of Sheriff Officers, and trouble paying back the bonds used for new jail.
How about some details on those lovely prisoners in detention.
I guess they don’t like the bologna.
Give them pp&g , or cheese
Based on the photo it looks like the police won that skirmish.