Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction ...

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

New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a ...

Remediation manager” sounds more like a third-rank bureaucrat or elementary school reading specialist than a revolutionary ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...