With the court orders that allowed the city to seal illicit cannabis stores starting to expire, questions remain about ...

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) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

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 ...

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

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

New York City's troubled jail system will be put under the watch of an independent monitor after a federal judge seized ...

A federal judge has stripped New York City of control over its jails, citing years of violence and neglect at the notorious ...

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.