Remediation manager” sounds more like a third-rank bureaucrat or elementary school reading specialist than a revolutionary ...

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

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

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

In a 77-page decision, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said she would select a "remediation manager," ...

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

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

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

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

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

What to Know New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, ...

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