Meir, the former top executive of New York City real estate development firm HFZ Capital Group, was ordered back to jail ...

Indictments for healthcare fraud have been brought against one current and two former Rikers Island officers, who allegedly faked injuries to claim nearly $1 million in workers' comp.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy spoke with Marcia Kramer on this week's episode ...

The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction ...

Rikers Island is a humanitarian crisis, especially for those with severe mental illness. Instead of offering care, the jail ...

Calling the conditions at Rikers Island “dangerous and unsafe,” federal Judge Laura Swain finally cleared the way for an ...

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A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly ...

A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city ...