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Federal Judge Removes NYC Jails From Full Local Control, Will Appoint Outside Manager
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 firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady and Ward filed against the city over brutality in its jails.
Judge orders ‘remediation manager’ to oversee Rikers Island jails
New York City’s jails will get an outside manager to protect the constitutional rights of people in custody, a federal judge announced Tuesday. Judge Laura Taylor Swain said in a new ruling that she will appoint an independent “remediation manager” to improve conditions on Rikers Island,
Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.
In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly ...
New York NY – “Appointing an independent remediation manager is a serious indictment of the decades of mismanagement at ...
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