Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders opposed to the Oversight Board's proposed restructuring filed a motion to ...

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint agreement on the potential structure and powers of a federal receiver tasked ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may violate a law on use of solitary confinement.

In her bombshell decision, Manhattan Federal Court Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain found that the city Department of Correction has failed to make meaningful progress on 18 sweeping reforms ...

In an opinion and order issued Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain wrote that she was "inclined to impose a receivership" after finding that ...

NEW YORK -- A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal takeover. Judge Laura Taylor Swain found the city and the ...

Over prosecutors’ arguments for a seven-year prison sentence, Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain handed down a three-year probationary sentence for Tournant, with 18 months of house arrest.

They say if the board continues its current approach there will be years more of litigation with outcomes showing the board's ...

What you need to know: ・The 65-page ruling: Judge Laura Taylor Swain found NYC and its Department of Correction violated the constitutional rights of both prisoners and staffers by exposing them ...

The bombshell ruling from Manhattan Federal Court Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain found that the city has failed to implement 18 sweeping reforms NYC agreed to enact under the 2015 Nunez federal ...