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

Steve J. Martin, who tracks conditions in the jails on behalf of federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain in the ongoing civil rights case known as Nunez v. the City of New York, said in his first update ...

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 seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...

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

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

Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Tuesday and appointed an ...

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

A federal judge on Tuesday officially seized control of Rikers Island from New York City, ordering the appointment of an independent manager to oversee the notorious jail complex that has been plagued ...

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly assigned the task to an independent outsider with the power to clean up the ...

The program will be offered at 1 p.m. June 24.  It is part of the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent, or POWER, Act, ...

What to Know New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling ...

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