Eleven adult men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday and should be considered armed and dangerous, officials with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office warned. One of the inmates has been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt a plan allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex ahead of a hearing ...

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

NEW YORK (WABC) -- 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. In the ...

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On Tuesday, Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain, a Clinton appointee, in a 77-page ruling, ordered that the notorious jail, along with the city’s entire jail system, be ...

Amid ongoing chaos and violence, a federal judge has finally taken decisive action to seize control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, citing years of mismanagement and neglect by city ...

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

Legislation passed by the New York City Council in 2019 requires the closure of Rikers Island prison by 2027 and new jails to replace it.

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

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

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