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.
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“There is no agency that . has been a more troublesome litigant in terms of, and you will excuse my language, ‘F - you, judge, I’ll do what I want’ in that period than DOC,” Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon said in open court on Friday. Her comments came in a class action case over unlawful detentions and conditions at Rikers Island.
One of New York City’s top litigators, a Harvard and Oxford graduate with decades of government experience, will join the NYC Department of Correction as its.