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 ...

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 has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local ...

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

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

Rikers Island will soon be run by a court-appointed official after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the troubled jail ...

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.

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

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