A federal judge has ordered New York City to draft plans to hand over management of its Rikers Island jail complex to a third-party receiver after holding the city's Department of Corrections (DOC) in civil contempt for failing to meet more than a dozen requirements to improve conditions in its violence-wracked jails.

A federal judge ruled the Adams administration is in contempt of the 2015 decree on all 18 points, including key measures such as deaths in custody and violence behind bars.