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

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

NEW YORK — A 37-year-old man died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, the first death in the system in 2025, according to officials and sources. The man, identified by sources as Ramel ...

A Rikers Island inmate behind bars for allegedly slashing a stranger with a boxcutter died in custody this week – marking the city’s first detainee death in 2025, officials and sources said.

Powell’s death was the first recorded in 2025. There were five deaths in 2024, 9 in 2023, 19 in 2022 and 16 in 2021, The News hs previously reported. Latest stories ...