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

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 ...

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

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

New York City will no longer control its jail system and an outside manager will take over, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

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 past 50 years, a ...

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

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

On Tuesday, Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain, a Clinton appointee, in a 77-page ruling, ...

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

New York City has been ordered to turn over control of Rikers Island—one of the country's most notorious jails—and other city ...