Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

On Tuesday, Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain, a Clinton appointee, in a 77-page ruling, ...

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

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