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

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 ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...

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

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

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 ...