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 had been held since July 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack in May of that year – died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility ...

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

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

The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick ...

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 detainee at the Rikers Island jail complex, identified as Ramel Powell, passed away in the early hours of Wednesday, marking the first death in the New York City Department of ...