Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...

The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...

A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, the first death in the system in 2025, according to ...

Adams says he will issue executive order reestablishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence at complex ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom ...

Top DOC overtime hogs at Rikers Island logged so many hours last year, it was the equivalent of six extra hours per day, 365 ...

Jail is a punishment, but being behind bars should never be a death sentence. A NYC jail is under investigation after a Black ...

The executive order seems to get around New York City’s sanctuary laws designed to prevent cooperation with the enforcement ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...

Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office ...