A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday said she is “inclined” to appoint a federal receiver to oversee the use of force and safety on Rikers Island — moving the jail complex the closest it has ever been to federal control.
US District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain’s statement was part of a Nov. 27 ruling in which she found the city Department of Correction to be in violation of multiple court orders to get rampant violence on Rikers under control.
Another Rikers Island death: Man succumbs after reported seizure; third in-custody death at facility in two weeks
Former Bronx Assembly District leader and Board of Elections employee gets two years in federal prison for extortion and bribery
Torres introduces River’s Law to ban swimming pools at residential daycares after tot’s deadly drowning
‘Classic bribery’: Former Adams aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin, power brokers at center of alleged pay-to-play schemes indicted
