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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 · 1d

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.

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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.

New York Post on MSN · 13h

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

Ramel Powell, 38 – who was being held since July of 2023 in connection to a Manhattan attack from May of that year – died around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Facility

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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

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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 ...

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 ...

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NYC Mayor Adams vows to reopen ICE office at Rikers Island following meeting with Trump border czar Tom Homan

Adams said he would issue executive orders to reestablish a federal immigration presence at the jail complex – with a new ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams promises to reopen ICE office on Rikers Island after meeting with Trump border czar

New York Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday met with border czar Tom Homan and federal officials for a closed-door meeting to ...

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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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