The outside official who will be granted broad powers by a federal judge to manage New York City’s jails should be someone with extensive experience running correctional institutions, the federal monitoring team tracking violence and use of force in city lockups said Thursday afternoon in a new report.

The monitoring team issued the report after requesting multiple extensions from U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in the Nunez v. City of New York class-action case — a signal perhaps of the jockeying going on behind the scenes over the unprecedented move to wrest control of the jails from City Hall.

The team reported that 30 people applied for the post of receiver, or “remediation manager” in the lingo of the case. On Aug. 29, the monitor, led by Steve Martin, submitted a confide

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