Judge Behan denied their requests and ordered the couple to surrender on June 9 to serve their 8-day jail sentence. If they fail to show up, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, they could be ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration’s takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was unlawful, and ...

Eleven adult men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday and should be considered armed and dangerous, officials with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office warned. One of the inmates has been ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- 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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain, a Clinton appointee, in a 77-page ruling, ordered that the notorious jail, along with the city’s entire jail system, be ...

New York City's troubled jail system will be put under the watch of an independent monitor after a federal judge seized ...

Amid ongoing chaos and violence, a federal judge has finally taken decisive action to seize control of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, citing years of mismanagement and neglect by city ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s troubled Rikers Island jail ...

Legislation passed by the New York City Council in 2019 requires the closure of Rikers Island prison by 2027 and new jails to replace it.

Laura Taylor Swain, a federal judge, seized control of New York City’s lockups, which have been rife with violence and ...