A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

New York City’s jails will get an outside manager to protect the constitutional rights of people in custody, a federal judge ...

A federal judge has removed New York City and its Department of Correction from full control of the Rikers Island jail ...

Federal judge orders external manager to take control of Rikers Island jail after reports of violence and mismanagement.

Swain issued the order in Nunez v. City of New York, a 13-year-old class-action suit that the Legal Aid Society and the law ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex ...

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to oversee the cleanup of Rikers Island. New York City has lost control ...

A federal judge ordered New York officials to hand control of the city’s troubled jail complex at Rikers Island to an outside ...

A federal judge in Manhattan has taken charge of reforming New York's Rikers Island jail complex, citing worsening violent ...

After years of litigation, a federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to ...

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly ...