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

After nearly a decade of ineffective oversight by a court-appointed monitor, the federal judge overseeing the city’s Department of Correction announced Tuesday she will appoint an independent ...

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

Judge Laura Taylor Swain said in a new ruling that she will appoint an independent “remediation manager” to improve conditions on Rikers Island, which has long been plagued by violence and ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that, if elected New York City mayor, he would begin relocating people with serious ...

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 seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...

The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to oversee the cleanup of Rikers Island. The decision was filed as part of Chief United States District Judge Laura ...

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island ... instead embracing the hybrid solution of a so-called remediation manager that would be appointed to work alongside DOC ...