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

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.

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...

Correctional officers complain of unsafe conditions, but critics say the protests were meant to deflect attention from ‘a ...

De Blasio released a roadmap for the jail complex’s closure, including safety protocols, reduced capacity and reduced isolation for inmates. The New York ... Cross Center, marking the 16th death at ...

The man, Yoni Barrios, 34, will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole but will avoid the death penalty ... authorities into the Rikers Island jail complex, a significant shift ...

However, Juan must keep himself safe at all times by pretending to be an inmate unless he wants to become Calancho ... Kalief was charged with a crime he did not even commit and was sent to Rikers ...

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 ...