The seemingly inevitable became reality Tuesday when a judge announced that Rikers Island would be placed under federal receivership, removing the city from control of the troubled correctional facility.
Chief U.S. Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that she would appoint a “remediation manager” to resolve all issues that led Swain to find the city in contempt of numerous standing orders last November to reform the various problems on Rikers Island that have contributed to “the ongoing violations of the constitutional rights of people in custody in the New York City jails.”
