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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ruled that an independent official will be appointed to oversee the Rikers Island jail complex, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court.

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 ...