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.

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday said she is “inclined” to appoint a federal receiver to oversee the use of force and safety on Rikers Island — moving the jail complex the closest it has ever been to federal control.

In a 65-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Swain of the Southern District of New York found the city in contempt on 18 claims. Plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel, filed the class action to address the brutality within New York City's jail facilities in 2012.

A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal takeover.

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.

The judge found that conditions have only continued to worsen at the jail complex, setting up a potential federal takeover.