The Department of Homeland Security is seeking the public's help in finding four detainees who escaped from Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention center in Newark.

Two of four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention center in New Jersey on Friday have been captured, authorities said on Sunday.

A small crowd of protesters gathered outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday. They said they were angry over alleged poor conditions at the immigration detention center.

A disturbance by detainees being held inside a controversial private immigration detention center in Newark led to protests outside and a large federal law enforcement response.

Conditions had been deteriorating at Delaney Hall in Newark for days. Detainees complained about erratic meals and crowded conditions. Then their frustrations boiled over.

New Jersey Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she impeded and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility.

About 50 immigrants being held at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.