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 will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a ...

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

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

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

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered that an independent manager be appointed to oversee the notorious jail complex ...

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

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 ...