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A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

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

Immigrants living in New York who were unlawfully held on Rikers Island because federal immigration agents asked the city to ...

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

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 run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

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

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

Court mandates reform for NYC's Rikers Island and appoints a remediation manager to address the jail's issues.

New York City's troubled jail system will be put under the watch of an independent monitor after a federal judge seized ...