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BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Kings of Leon drummer and Manchester City fan Nathan Followill to make predictions for this weekends Premier League games.

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Rides Andy Bell & Steve Queralt to make predictions for this weekends Premier League games.

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Gladiators star Bionic to make predictions for this weekends Premier League games.

NEW YORK — A federal judge has lifted a contempt order against New York City and the Correction Department, saying the department has complied with her directives to improve its cooperation with a federal monitor tracking violence at Rikers Island and other city jails. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain removed the contempt charge in a two-page order signed Tuesday. Swain, who ...

Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain is losing patience with the city Department of Correction, which has now come under fire from the court-appointed feder...

A New York federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for detainees at New York City's Rikers Island and Manhattan federal prosecutors to push for a receiver to take control of the notorious jail complex away from city officials, in the wake of increasingly dire reports of violence and mismanagement.

Following years of incremental arguments and reports, Judge Laura Swain moved toward stripping control from New York City.

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"The court is deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of every person held at Rikers Island and all of those who work there," said Southern District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

The feds should take control of the long-troubled Rikers Island jail complex from New York City, the Manhattan U.S. attorney said Monday. Damian Williams said he would ask a judge to place the notorious facilities in federal receivership to address ongoing dangers to detainees and city correction officers. Williams’ office said the decision came after a federal monitor’s report last week found ...