New York, Sept. 26 -- A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction imposing sweeping new standards on an ICE detention facility at New York City, berating its poor conditions and arguing that people held there during the summer of 2025 were subjected to "inhumane and unconstitutional" conditions.
US District Judge Lewis A Kaplan issued the 127-page ruling in a class-action case over conditions at ICE's facility at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
The court certified a class covering all immigration detainees currently held, or who may later be held, at the facility.
Kaplan said ICE had severely overcrowded the facility and kept detainees there for far longer than the rooms were designed for.
The hold rooms were intended for sho...