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 ...

The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick ...

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 ...

A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...

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 ...

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 ...