The brutality at Delaney Detention Center continues. Inhumane conditions include inedible food that has worms, is frozen, or moldy; sleep deprivations; beatings. Extreme medical neglect has resulted in a third man, Jose Chajon-Raxon, from Guatemala, dying at Delaney Hall during the last week of July. The two men who died earlier this year due to medical emergencies are Edwin López Cornejo, age 39, and Jean Wilson Brutus, age 41. Please reflect on these names as you read “Destruction,” a poem written after observing Tisha B’Av at Delaney Hall on July 22, 2026. Included at the poem’s end is a link to a Montclair Local article about the circumstances under which these three men died. (more…)