In a 77-page decision, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said she would select a "remediation manager," ...

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

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.

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

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an independent outside official will take control of Rikers Island from City in a sweeping ...

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

A federal judge took the extraordinary step of stripping the city of its control over Rikers Island, ruling that City Hall ...

A federal judge seized control of New York City’s troubled jail system Tuesday — ordering that an outside official be brought ...

A federal judge ordered New York City to hand control of its troubled Rikers Island jail to an outside manager, capping a decade-long court-ordered monitorship that consistently found rampant violence ...

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to oversee the cleanup of Rikers Island. New York City has lost control of the infamous jail. The decision was filed as ...

NYC Mayor Adams unveils a 500-unit, mixed-income housing project on Staten Island with a focus on sustainability using mass ...