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 ...

Activists rally to demand Adams' removal, after a 34th death in custody on his watch. The mayor wants to bring ICE officers ...

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

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

President Trump’s executive order also directed federal departments and agencies to ensure that federal funds do not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Queens DA Melinda Katz released surveillance video of the cold case murder of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer in ...

The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, ...

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