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Why Rikers Island will no longer be under New York City's control
Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has ...
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Federal Judge Removes Rikers Island From City Control
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered that an independent manager be appointed to oversee the notorious jail complex ...
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 ...
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New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election ...
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NYC ordered to hand control of Rikers Island to outside manager
A federal judge ordered New York officials to hand control of the city’s troubled jail complex at Rikers Island to an outside ...
NYC loses control of Rikers Island as judge appoints remediation manager to run jail complex
A federal judge has appointed a remediation manager to run Rikers Island and report directly to her, taking control of the ...
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Judge Orders Federal Control of New York's Rikers Island Jail, Stripping City Oversight
Federal judge orders external manager to take control of Rikers Island jail after reports of violence and mismanagement.
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Rikers Island to be taken out of New York City control, federal judge rules
A federal judge Tuesday seized control of New York City's notorious jail complex on Rikers Island, which will now be run by an official who reports directly to the court.In the past 50 years, a ...
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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 ...
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New York City Pension Funds Double Down on Decarbonization – New Expectations Will Impact Managers and Their Portfolio Companies
Over the last few months, most of the attention in the climate space in the U.S. has been on the dramatic, and expected, shift in federal ...
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WABC reporter NJ Burkett reports outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City with reaction following Pope Leo XIV's becoming the 1st American pope. New York is set to lower the minimum hiring ...