Investigation launched after Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – marking first prisoner death of 2025
Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...
Investigation launched after Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – marking first detainee death of 2025
Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...
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Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex's first death of 2025
A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...
Rikers Island has first death of 2025, detainee had been held 19 months
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 ...
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Cold case homicide: Queens DA seeks public help in solving 2020 murder of correction officer
Queens DA Melinda Katz released surveillance video of the cold case murder of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer in ...
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams To Let ICE Agents into Rikers Jail Complex, Signaling a Sharp Change in Sanctuary Laws
Adams is set to issue an executive order to allow federal immigration authorities into Rikers Island jail complex after meeting with Border Czar Tom Homan.