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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rikers Island will soon be run by a court-appointed official after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the troubled jail ...

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 ...