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 ...

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

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

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex ...

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

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

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

A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the ...

The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

On Tuesday, Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain, a Clinton appointee, in a 77-page ruling, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run ...

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