After nearly a decade of ineffective oversight by a court-appointed monitor, the federal judge overseeing the city’s Department of Correction announced Tuesday she will appoint an independent “remediation manager” who will have broad powers and report directly to the court to enact long stalled reforms on Rikers Island.  Laura Taylor Swain, the chief district judge […]

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