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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

Hosted 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.

Mayor Adams wants immigration officers back on Rikers. Can he do that?

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

Queens Chronicle3d

Adams says bring ICE back to Rikers

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

8don MSN

Former NY ICE official applauds ‘critical’ move to reopen Rikers Island to feds

A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to ...

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Man held on Rikers Island sucker-punches female corrections officer, causing severe head injury

A man held on Rikers Island sucker-punched a female correction officer in the head from behind without warning Saturday, ...

CNN on MSN9d

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 ...

7don MSN

Homan pushes back on allegation on Adams case being ordered to be dropped for Rikers access

President Trump’s “border czar” on Sunday pushed back on allegations that prosecutors were ordered to dismiss charges against ...

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