Queens Daily Eagle3d
Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...
NYC Correction Dept. set to order mandatory 12-hour tours for officers again
Still facing a stubborn staffing crunch, the City Department of Correction will require officers to work mandatory 12-hour ...
Yahoo News UK4d
NYC’s Rikers Island has first death of 2025, detainee had been held 19 months
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 ...