A federal judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding rooms in New York City to meet certain minimum conditions, including that ICE offer detainees beds and toiletries and allow them to make calls with attorneys.

The decision follows a raft of complaints about conditions at the facilities at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and comes after civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Make the Road New York, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last week.

The suit alleges that conditions in the ICE holding rooms were “crowded, squalid and punitive.” Migrants who were detained in the holding rooms told Gothamist, in an article referenced in the lawsuit, that they received insuff

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