A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to the Adams administration’s efforts to retain control of Rikers Island, denying a motion that sought to undo her decision to put the troubled jail complex under federal receivership.

Federal Judge Laura Swain, who is overseeing the decade-old detainee rights case Nunez v. the City of New York, rejected the city’s attempt to get her to reconsider the major ruling she made in May, ordering the city’s jails to be placed under the control of a third-party receiver known as a remediation manager.

Swain denied a related request from the city on Thursday to name DOC Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie the “compliance director,” a role the city proposed in place of the soon-to-be-appointed receiver.

The ruling comes as Swain is considering a sho

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