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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Tuesday and appointed an official who reports to the court to run it.

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 ...

In her 77-page ruling, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took aim at the city Correctiin Department for failing to act as the situation at Rikers has worsened. She didn’t immediately ...