Robert Kurlander first circulated the stolen diary at a Trump fundraiser during the leadup to the 2020 general election, with ...

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders argued with the Puerto Rico Oversight Board's position that the utility's ...

Kalief Browder's death wasn't an accident or simply just a tragedy — it was murder by the system. #Massincarceration #racism ...

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board is asking the bankruptcy judge to reject the PREPA bondholders' minimum $3.7 billion administrative expense claim. The Puerto Rico Oversight Board told the U.S ...

New York Judge Laura Taylor Swain has taken over the Rikers Island jail complex due to ongoing alleged constitutional violations, including violence and neglect. This followed a contempt ruling in ...

The Mountain Amateur Athletics Club honored WNC's top high school student-athletes in its 63rd annual awards banquet on May 25.

But Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain’s order Tuesday kicking off the process to appoint such a manager marks a turning point in the horrific history of the city’s jails because of ...

Rikers Island is one of the most infamous jail complexes in the U.S., and it is now under new management: a federal judge has seized control of the facility from New York City and placed it under the ...

Citing nearly a decade of cyclical reform and backsliding at Rikers, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor Swain rejected a proposal from New York City to ...

In appointing a receiver by another name to run Rikers Island, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has rightly assigned the task to an independent outsider with the power to clean up the ...

In a 77-page ruling, Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that she found the conduct of the city over the last nine years "leaves no doubt that continued insistence on compliance with the court's orders ...

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.