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 ...

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

A federal judge has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local ...

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

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

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

The mayor has asked top staffers to look into how many units of housing could be built at the borough sites in Manhattan, ...

The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

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

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

Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any steps to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island. In ...

A Manhattan judge is blocking Mayor Eric Adams’ administration from letting federal immigration agents operate on Rikers Island for at least another month, extending a temporary restraining order ...