The dynamic and resilient operations director of a Northamptonshire-based asbestos removal and biohazard cleaning company has ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that ...

Funding to remediate areas of Greensboro has landed with the passage of North Carolina’s budget in mid-September — albeit months past its July 1 goal. Greensboro city officials were updated on state ...

A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to the Adams administration’s efforts to retain control of Rikers Island, denying a motion that sought to undo her decision to put the troubled jail ...

Rikers Island has seen a century of decay, chaos and death. Both those who work there and are held there are subject daily to violence and danger, according to the federal monitor who has been ...

The outside official who will be granted broad powers by a federal judge to manage New York City’s jails should be someone with extensive experience running correctional institutions, the federal ...

People seeking to be the remediation manager have applied, and the lawsuit’s parties — the Legal Aid Society and federal prosecutors for the plaintiffs, the city as the defendant — are supposed to be ...

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s Rikers Island and the cascading consequences of solitary confinement. At 17 ...

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The recently announced federal-court takeover of Rikers Island was a long-overdue attempt to remove a stain on the soul of New York that shames all of us. The jail is being placed under the control of ...

This week, a federal judge appointed a remediation manager for Rikers Island. So will it make a difference in conditions there? "They didn't create this mess. I don't think they made it much better.