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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Gothamist2d
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 ...
3 hotel workers found dead near Japan hot spring resort
Three hotel workers were found dead Tuesday in northeastern Japan after conducting routine maintenance on a hot spring source ...
Daily Herald4d
Who had the area’s top prep basketball performances of the week?
The madness is underway. The girls basketball playoffs kicked off Saturday and began in earnest with Monday’s regional ...
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"Bullhorn Lady" Rachel Powell released from prison after January 6 pardons from President Trump
Today, Rachel Powell was released from a Washington D.C. correctional facility after serving one year of a five-year sentence. After three years of house arrest and more than a year in prison ...