Rikers Island Must Be Turned Over to a Federal Receiver (New York Law Journal)

New York Law Journal, December 18, 2023 

Rikers Island Must Be Turned Over to a Federal Receiver 

By Susan J. Kohlmann, City Bar President, and Stephanie Holmes, Co-Chair of the Committee on Corrections and Community Reentry 

This past September, a delegation from the New York City Bar Association toured the George R. Vierno Center, one of the jails on Rikers Island. What we saw brought into stark relief why a federal court must intervene and appoint its own official—known as a receiver—to run the jail complex, and why the City Bar, along with the Vera Institute of Justice, recently submitted an amicus brief urging a court to do just that.