Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Swain issued the order in Nunez v. City of New York, a 13-year-old class-action suit that the Legal Aid Society and the law ...

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

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

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

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