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 ...

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

A federal judge has decided to take control of New York’s Rikers Island jail away from city officials due to years of worsening violence and dangerous conditions ...

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

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

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an independent official will be appointed to oversee the Rikers Island jail complex, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court.

A federal judge has stripped New York City of control over its jails, citing years of violence and neglect at the notorious ...

Outside official will take over deadly Rikers Island jail, judge orders - Nation and World News | Hawaii Tribune-Herald ...

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