To make appropriations for the conduct of inspections of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility.

SA 5545. Mr. KIM (for himself and Mr. Booker) proposed an amendment
to amendment SA 5453 proposed by Mr. Thune (for Mr. Graham) to the bill
S. 2, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con.
Res. 33.; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) In addition to amounts otherwise available,
there is appropriated to the Office of the Inspector General
and the Office of Detention Oversight of the Department of
Homeland Security for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000 to each
conduct, not later than 7 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, an unannounced inspection of the
Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey, in
accordance with subsection (b).
(b) Each inspection required under subsection (a) shall
assess--
(1) the standard and quality of food provided in the
facility;
(2) the quality of, and access to, medical care at the
facility;
(3) the conditions and use of solitary confinement measures
at the facility;
(4) the security of the facility;
(5) detainees' access to legal counsel;
(6) the resources provided to detainees in the facility;
(7) the capacity of the staff at the facility to identify
and appropriately address mental health issues found among
detainees at the facility;
(8) detainee accounts of recent protests at the facility
and whether use of force or retaliation tactics were
deployed;

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(9) mental health conditions of detainees and agents or
officers serving at the facility; and
(10) the average length of stay for detainees and the
number of detainees who have been detained for a period of
more than 150 days.
(c) Not later than 7 days after each inspection is
conducted pursuant to subsection (a)--
(1) the Department of Homeland Security's Office of
Inspector General or U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's Office of Detention Oversight, as appropriate,
shall submit a detailed summary of the findings of the
inspection to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security
of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and
(2) such Office of Inspector General shall submit to the
Attorney General a recommendation on whether the Attorney
General should pursue charges for wrongdoing by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents or
other Federal employees at the facility or who responded to
protests.
(d) Not later than 7 days after both summaries have been
submitted to Congress pursuant to subsection (c), the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall--
(1) submit the certification described in subsection (e)(2)
to the congressional committees referred to in subsection
(c); or
(2) submit a report to such congressional committees that
identifies any operational deficiencies revealed in the
inspections that have not yet been adequately remedied.
(e)(1) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall suspend all
payments to the GEO Group with respect to its contract to
operate the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New
Jersey, and halt the intake of new detainees at such facility
until the inspections required under subsection (a) have been
completed and the certification described in paragraph (2)
has been submitted to Congress.
(2) Payments to the GEO Group may not resume and new
detainees may not be admitted to the Delaney Hall Detention
Facility until after the Secretary of Homeland Security
certifies to the congressional committees referred to in
subsection (c) that all operational deficiencies revealed by
the inspections have been adequately remediated by the GEO
Group.
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