Friday is the deadline for the city and the Legal Aid Society to submit up to four suggestions each for a manager to temporarily take control over much of Rikers Island’s operations. But several people who considered applying for the position told City & State they were turned off after reading the job description, saying it appears that the remediation manager would lack the authority needed to fully change the jail complex.

Nearly a decade after the city’s violence-scarred jails fell under federal oversight through the settlement of the Nunez class-action lawsuit , this independent “remediation manager” would report to the court and work with the Department of Correction commissioner to enact long-stalled reforms, according to the historic ruling issued by federal judge Laura Taylor

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