Twelve people died in city jails this year — three over a two-week period — already exceeding the number who died last year. Despite a decade under court monitoring during which five commissioners ...

St. Barnabas plans to spend $5 million from a foundation grant to apply for nursing accreditation programs. By James Barron Laura Taylor Swain, a federal judge, seized control of New York City’s ...

The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly constrict when officers can remove a violent detainee from the general ...

Southern District Judge Laura Taylor Swain has been selected to preside over Puerto Rico's bankruptcy-protection filing, which may lead to the largest municipal debt restructuring in U.S. history. In ...

U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain gave no indication of how she'd rule on the bondholders' $3.7 billion administrative claim. The judge in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority ...

The outside official who will be granted broad powers by a federal judge to manage New York City’s jails should be someone with extensive experience running correctional institutions, the federal ...