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

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 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.

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

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 on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

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

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

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

Court mandates reform for NYC's Rikers Island and appoints a remediation manager to address the jail's issues.

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