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 ...

Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died ...

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 ...

Board members reported they observed a botched roll-out in visits on Sunday ... An aerial view of the Rikers Island prison complex. (Photo by Debra L. Rothenberg/Getty Images) While the detainees ...

The Department of Correction came under fire Tuesday from a city oversight board for quietly creating a new high-security unit on Rikers Island that ... observed a botched roll-out in visits ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’ll allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail following ... efforts to roll back the city ...

because “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” while the fallen mogul remains imprisoned in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail. Judge Curtis Farber on Wednesday morning set ...

marking the 16th death at Rikers Island in 2021 – more fatalities than the last two years combined and the most since 2016. Hundreds of incarcerated people staged a days-long hunger strike in protest ...