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

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

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

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city ...

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

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

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run ...

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

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

A federal court in New York ruled that Rikers Island will be placed under the control of an independent receiver. In the ...

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

In a highly anticipated 77-page ruling, Judge Laura Swain wrote that the receiver, which she called a “remediation manager,” ...