{"id":355840,"date":"2026-09-24T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:52:13","slug":"ice-ordered-by-judge-to-avoid-overcrowding-at-nyc-detention-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355840\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Ordered by Judge to Avoid Overcrowding at NYC Detention Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration officials must make permanent changes to prevent future overcrowding and ensure attorney access at its holding facility at a lower Manhattan immigration courthouse, a federal judge ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>US Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/kaplan-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis A. Kaplan<\/a>\u2018s ruling sides with a group of former detainees who asked the court to issue a permanent injunction requiring US Immigration &amp; Customs Enforcement to ensure the basic needs of people detained at 26 Federal Plaza are met going forward.<\/p>\n<p>ICE officials, staff, and contractors \u201cat a minimum were reckless in disregarding\u201d the unsanitary living conditions and overcrowding, inadequate food and water, and lack of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US immigration officials must make permanent changes to prevent future overcrowding and ensure attorney access at its holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[132600,44830,9961,63419,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-355840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-attorney-communication-with-clients","tag-drinking-water","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-injunctions","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}