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.

Career criminal Sundance Oliver was already dubbed “a one-man crime wave” while he was on the streets of the Big Apple — and ...

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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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...