Rikers Island ruling: Federal judge finds NYC in contempt of reform decree, inclined' to putting jail under receiver | amNewYork
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"US District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain's statement was part of a Nov. 27 ruling in which she found the city Department of Correction to be in violation of multiple court orders to get rampant violence on Rikers under control."
"Swain wrote conditions the city was ordered to meaningfully stem over the past nine years, such as the use of force, stabbings, slashings, fights, assaults on staff, and deaths in custody, remain extremely high."
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