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

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

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

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

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

A federal judge has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local ...

Laura Taylor Swain, a federal judge, seized control of New York City’s lockups, which have been rife with violence and ...

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 ...