When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed reforms at Rikers Island, criminal justice advocates hailed it as a turning point for the scandal-plagued jail system. Eight months later, those changes have yet to materialize — and the judge is still reviewing candidates for the […]

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