A push to put the city’s embattled jail system under a federal court’s control is a judicial tool of last resort — one that would give sweeping powers to an independent authority tasked with finally ending the violence on Rikers Island.
Previous attempts to fix the notorious lockup have failed miserably, Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said Tuesday in a legal filing which floated the prospect that “aggressive relief” through a “federal receivership” could be needed.
“Receivership is a remedy of last resort,” said Hernandez Stroud, counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
“Professors call it the ‘nuclear option’ in terms of institutional reform and litigation because it’s the most … powerful tactic
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