Criminal justice advocates rallied in Lower Manhattan Wednesday to demand the closure of Rikers Island as a federal judge mulls whether to hand over the city correctional facility to a federal receiver.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain held a Sept. 25 at the federal courthouse and was poised to decide whether to find the Adams administration in contempt of a federal monitor already providing oversight at Rikers, and take control of the controversial island away from the mayor amid years of inmate deaths and allegations of human rights abuses.
