{"id":130843,"date":"2024-11-28T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130843"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:34:51","slug":"judge-finds-new-york-in-contempt-clearing-the-way-for-rikers-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130843","title":{"rendered":"Judge Finds New York in Contempt, Clearing the Way for Rikers Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge overseeing New York City\u2019s Rikers Island jail complex on Wednesday found the city in contempt for failing to stem violence and excessive force at the facility, and said she was leaning toward taking control of the city\u2019s jails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, said in a 65-page opinion that the city and its Department of Correction had violated the constitutional rights of prisoners and staff members alike by exposing them to danger, and had intentionally ignored her orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The judge wrote that she was \u201cinclined\u201d to impose an outside authority, known as a receiver, which she said would be a \u201cremedy that will make the management of the use of force and safety aspects of the Rikers Island jails ultimately answerable directly to the court.\u201d She ordered the city and lawyers representing prisoners to devise a plan for a receivership by Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Swain\u2019s ruling came nearly a decade after the city\u2019s jails, which include the Rikers Island complex, fell under federal oversight in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/23\/nyregion\/new-york-city-settles-suit-over-abuses-at-rikers-island.html\" title=\"\">a settlement of a class-action lawsuit<\/a> brought by prisoners and the Legal Aid Society. Since then, a court-appointed monitor has issued regular reports on the violence that has continued to plague the facilities. In the past two years, at least 33 people have died in the jails or shortly after being released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The federal monitor, Steve J. Martin, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/08\/nyregion\/rikers-island-jail-report.html\" title=\"\">filed a report last year saying that violence was unabated<\/a> in the jails and that officials were hiding information about it. Mr. Martin\u2019s team recommended that the judge consider holding the Department of Correction in contempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, Judge Swain found the city in contempt of 18 provisions reached in the settlement. She wrote that the nine years since the deal was reached had shown that depending on jail officials who answer to politicians would merely mean more confrontation and delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe current management structure and staffing are insufficient to turn the tide within a reasonable period,\u201d Judge Swain wrote, noting \u201cthat enormous resources \u2014 that the city devotes to a system that is at the same time overstaffed and underserved \u2014 are not being deployed effectively\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawyers who filed the suit against the city \u2014 from the Legal Aid Society and the firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward &amp; Maazel \u2014 called Wednesday\u2019s ruling \u201ca historic decision,\u201d in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe culture of brutality on Rikers Island has resisted judicial and political reform efforts for years,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last November, Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, formally joined calls for the appointment of an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/18\/nyregion\/rikers-island-federal-takeover.html\" title=\"\">outside authority to take control of Rikers Island<\/a>. 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