U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are denying hygiene products, clean clothing and attorney phone calls to detainees in holding facilities in Lower Manhattan, in violation of a federal judge’s orders, attorneys and detainees allege in new court filings.

Detainees’ attorneys return to federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday to ask U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to hold the federal government in contempt for continued violations of orders requiring improved conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, which houses detained immigrants.

Kaplan in August issued a temporary restraining order — and later a preliminary injunction , indefinitely extending the order — requiring ICE to meet certain minimum living standards for detainees. The order required ICE to reduce the number

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