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 ...

With the court orders that allowed the city to seal illicit cannabis stores starting to expire, questions remain about ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

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

New York City will no longer control its jail system and an outside manager will take over, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

New York City's troubled jail system will be put under the watch of an independent monitor after a federal judge seized ...

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

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an independent official will be appointed to oversee the Rikers Island jail complex, ...

Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a stunning ruling that effectively places Rikers Island under the control of the court. The infamously dangerous jail complex houses around 7,000 […] ...