Galveston County Sheriff’s Office announced that Galveston County jail inmates will be wearing pink color jumpsuits over traditional green.

Top officials at the Department of Correction said Friday that the mayor’s office has yet to speak with them about the ...

The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that inmates can spend in solitary ... to see what goes on in New York City and Rikers Island, and they carry it over to the rest of the state, ...

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.

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 ...

A 37-year-old man with apparent psychiatric issues accused in a Lower East Side slashing died in a city jail on Rikers Island early Wednesday, the first death in the system in 2025, according to ...

A 38-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning. Ramel Powell, who had been held in the city’s jails for nearly two years as he awaited trial, was found dead inside the Otis Bantum ...

NEW YORK — 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 officials and sources. The man, identified by sources as ...