Dozens of correctional facilities canceled prison visits one day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Harvey Weinstein, once one of Hollywood's most powerful producers, is pleading to move up his New York trial date out of fear ...

Harvey Weinstein, who is jailed at Rikers Island and in failing health while he awaits his third rape trial, has filed an ...

Top DOC overtime hogs at Rikers Island logged so many hours last year, it was the equivalent of six extra hours per day, 365 ...

The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has ...