Ramel Powell, 38 died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility within the city’s most ...
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 ...
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 ...
Still facing a stubborn staffing crunch, the City Department of Correction will require officers to work mandatory 12-hour ...
A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...
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 ...
The man, identified by sources as Ramel Powell, had been held in the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. He was sent to Rikers in July, 2023 – 19 months ago – on a parole violation related to a robbery ...