Judge Laura Taylor Swain criticized the city's conduct in a 77-page ruling. A federal judge on Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling ...