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

A deranged vagrant who allegedly slashed a worker at a Brooklyn dollar store and then tried to light his victim on fire was cut loose without bail — after just three days at Rikers Island.

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 ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom ...

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.

Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...

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 ...

New York City’s Democratic mayor appeared on the “Fox & Friends” show alongside President Donald Trump’s border czar ...

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