When it comes to the hellish conditions at Rikers, nothing could be clearer: The jail facility is in urgent need of new management.

Which is exactly what the US attorney’s office in Manhattan is now calling for.

“This is a collective failure with deep roots, spanning multiple mayoral administrations and DOC commissioners,” roared US Attorney Damian Williams, as he announced plans to seek a court-appointed receiver.  

“After eight years of trying every tool in the toolkit, we cannot wait any longer for substantial progress to materialize.”

He’s absolutely right.

Williams’ announcement came just days after the federal monitor overseeing the city jail fumed about a “pervasive dysfunction” there. Inmates continue to die; they and staff continue to suffer injuries.

Conditions are atrocious, and clearly, improvements aren’t coming fast enough — despite Correction Commissioner Louis Molina’s best efforts.

Federal monitor Steve J. Martin and his team have been in place since a 2015 settlement  — and have reaped more than $10 million.

In those eight years, Rikers has become more dangerous: Inmates die from fentanyl overdoses and suicide, violence is aimed at guards and detainees and gangs actually maintain control of sections (a violent drill rap video was brazenly filmed inside the complex last March).

The deaths and dysfunction need to stop.

And for that to happen, the city must agree to receivership, which comes with powers the city lacks.

A receiver can force a rewriting of better work rules, hiring requirements and  accountability and would get the same budgetary and hiring and firing power as the mayor and commissioner.

Molina is an able professional who has worked to change the department’s culture but he’s faced crisis-level absences and severe understaffing at Rikers, following years of prior-administration negligence.

Mayor Eric Adams should accept it: Federal receivership is the only way to cut through the obstacles and fix Rikers. Get it going, now.