Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...
Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...
A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...
A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, in the first death in the system in 2025, according ...
A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...
The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...
Queens DA Melinda Katz released surveillance video of the cold case murder of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer in ...
The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’ll allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...
Inmates on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike in protest of COVID-19 lockdowns and the poor conditions at the NYC prison facility. About 200 male inmates at the Robert N. Davoren Complex launched ...
Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.