NYC Ordered to Hand Control of Rikers to Outside Manager (1)

A federal judge ordered New York City to hand control of its troubled Rikers Island jail to an outside manager, capping a decade-long court-ordered monitorship that consistently found rampant violence and other ills in the city’s lockups.

US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain said in a ruling Tuesday that she would appoint a “remediation manager” to address the deeply entrenched problems at the sprawling jail complex. Rikers has been under the federal monitoring program since 2015, after the settlement of a class action lawsuit against the city.

“The court has fashioned a remedy designed to ameliorate defendants’ contempt by empowering ...