Rikers Island will soon be run by a court-appointed official after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the troubled jail ...

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

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

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

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The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail ...

A federal judge has decided to take control of New York’s Rikers Island jail away from city officials due to years of ...

Calling the conditions at Rikers Island “dangerous and unsafe,” federal Judge Laura Swain finally cleared the way for an ...

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

A federal judge took the extraordinary step of stripping the city of its control over Rikers Island, ruling that City Hall ...