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New York Post on MSN · 2d

Investigation launched after Rikers Island inmate dies in custody – marking first prisoner death of 2025

Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most notorious lockup, according to the Department of Correction.

Gothamist · 3d

Rikers Island detainee dies in custody, marking first such death of 2025, city says

The city Department of Correction said it was still investigating the death and had no further details on how the person died.

New York Daily News · 3d

Rikers Island has first death of 2025, detainee had been held 19 months

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 to officials and sources. The man, identified by sources as Ramel

WINS Radio New York on MSN · 3d

Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex's first death of 2025

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in 2025, according to the New York City Department of Correction.

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REVOLVING DOOR: NYC’s ‘Worst drug dealer’ busted again with cocaine, heroin, ecstasy

Brandon Hunter was arrested again Feb. 5 after he was caught with the drugs and in the same Midtown spot, according to ...

The Marshall Project9h

How a Guards’ Strike Plunged New York Prisons Into Turmoil and Why the Timing Is Curious

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

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NYC correction officer viciously punched on Rikers Island released from hospital

As her fellow correction officers applauded, Shamika Mitchell, 37, walked out of the hospital after six days spent recovering ...

CNN on MSN8d

NYC mayor preps executive order allowing ICE agents into Rikers Island after meeting border czar

Border czar Tom Homan met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday in a sign of how the Trump administration has its ...

8don MSN

NYC mayor to allow immigration officials to operate at Rikers jail after Trump border czar meeting

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...

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After Meeting With Trump’s Border Czar, Adams Opens Rikers to ICE Agents

The executive order seems to get around New York City’s sanctuary laws designed to prevent cooperation with the enforcement ...

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