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Federal Judge Pushes for Receiver Takeover of Rikers Island
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A Manhattan federal judge in a long-running lawsuit against the city’s beleaguered Department of Correction said Wednesday that a third-party receiver should be appointed to oversee use-of-force and safety issues in the city’s jails. Laura Taylor Swain, chief district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, cited nine years […]
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