In a highly anticipated 77-page ruling, Judge Laura Swain wrote that the receiver, which she called a “remediation manager,” ...

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

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

Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) is significantly trailing state Attorney General Ken Paxton in an internal GOP primary poll ...

New York's Rikers Island Doula Program provides crucial support to incarcerated pregnant women, offering compassionate care ...

As the population on Rikers Island continues to grow past 7,000 detainees – its highest point since 2019 – a collection of ...

Four years after NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal pushed for doula care in jails, the Rikers Island Doula Program is in full ...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams urged the Adams administration Monday to look at ways to reduce the jail population, which ...

Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any ...

Re “City Hall considers abandoning plan to replace Rikers with borough jails” (May 3): Mayor Adams’ purported attempt to ...

The New York City Council is suing the Adams administration to stop it from returning the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Rikers Island jail complex, from which the agency was banned ...

A federal judge 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.The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ...