In a highly anticipated 77-page ruling, Judge Laura Swain wrote that the receiver, which she called a “remediation manager,” would report directly to her and oversee efforts to end the “ongoing violations of the constitutional rights of people in custody in the New York City jails” — including chronic violence, fatalities and abuse.

The implementation of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s executive order allowing federal immigration agents to re-establish offices on Rikers Island would “tear a hole through the fabric of New York City’s sanctuary laws,