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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office ...

President Trump’s border czar, Thomas Homan, warned New York Mayor Eric Adams to uphold his promise to grant federal immigration authorities access to Rikers Island. Homan stated that if Adams fails ...