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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Federal judge orders external manager to take control of Rikers Island jail after reports of violence and mismanagement.

Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain took control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Tuesday and appointed an official who reports to the court to run it.

A federal judge in Manhattan has taken charge of reforming New York's Rikers Island jail complex, citing worsening violent ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an independent official will be appointed to oversee the Rikers Island jail complex, ...