The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex, which may be taken over by a ...

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

A Rikers Island inmate charged with murdering an elderly Upper West Side woman in 2023 died Monday inside the Manhattan ...

The man had a medical emergency while in a holding area at Manhattan court, according to the city Department of Correction ...

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

The man was in a holding cell in the lower Manhattan courthouse on Centre St. near Hogan Place when he had a seizure around 4 ...

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 Monday, marking the second in-custody death of 2025, less than a ...

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

Still facing a stubborn staffing crunch, the City Department of Correction will require officers to work mandatory 12-hour ...

Ramel Powell, 38 - who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year - died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility ...