Fixing Rikers Island won’t happen fast. Manhattan federal court Judge Laura Swain says it could take up to seven years to turn around the city’s troubled jail system after she recently appointed a former Vermont prisons chief to lead the overhaul. Nicholas Deml, who also once served in the CIA, must submit his initial plan […]

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