Judge orders city to hand over control of Rikers to outside manager
UPDATED 1:20 PM ET May. 13, 2025
A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager.
In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that manager will "support remediation of the ongoing violations of the constitutional rights of people in custody in the New York City jails."