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Federal judge seizes control of Rikers Island from NYC

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex, one of the nation’s largest and most famous jails, which houses around 7,

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NYC loses control of Rikers Island as judge appoints remediation manager to run jail complex

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Federal Judge Removes Rikers Island From City Control

Judge seizes control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex

Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that she found the conduct of the city over the last nine years "leaves no doubt that continued insistence on compliance with the court's orders by persons answerable p...

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Federal judge orders independent official to take control of Rikers Island from NYC

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NYC Ordered to Hand Control of Rikers to Outside Manager (1)

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 and other ills in the city’s lockups.

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Advocates urge court to block ICE’s return to Rikers Island

The implementation of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s executive order allowing federal immigration agents to re-establish offices on Rikers Island would “tear a hole through the fabric of New York City’s sanctuary laws,