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Former ICE deputy describes standards, draws on commissary and occupancy data
Summary
A retired ICE official testified that Delaney Hall adheres to enforceable national detention standards, citing commissary spending, capacity and state inspection results to dispute hunger-strike and overcrowding claims.
Scott Michalski, a retired ICE deputy director who said he ran detention centers, told the subcommittee that detention standards trigger written medical protocols when a hunger strike is declared and emphasized audits and inspections. He cited DHS-reported commissary figures—characterizing sales at Delaney Hall as having "nearly tripled" during the weeks activists called a hunger strike—and told members the facility is built for 1,000 beds and had a population the testimony identified as 766 on May 25.
Michalski also pointed to a June 8 New Jersey health inspection that he said found the kitchen sanitary with no evidence of rodents, and argued that some public accounts had been "manufactured hoaxes" intended to obstruct federal law enforcement. He invited members to review the written protocols and inspection findings in the record.
