[net-gold] CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE : UNITED STATES: STATES: FLORIDA : PRISONS AND PRISONERS : CRIME AND CRIMINALS: TORTURE : RACISM AND RACISTS : MENTAL ILLNESS: Darren Rainey, Mentally Ill Inmate, Dies Unspeakable Death At Guards' Hands, No One Punished
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
UNITED STATES: STATES: FLORIDA :
PRISONS AND PRISONERS :
CRIME AND CRIMINALS: TORTURE :
RACISM AND RACISTS :
MENTAL ILLNESS:
Darren Rainey, Mentally Ill Inmate, Dies Unspeakable Death
At Guards' Hands, No One Punished
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Darren Rainey, Mentally Ill Inmate, Dies Unspeakable Death
At Guards' Hands, No One Punished
Posted: May 23, 2014
Inquisitr
http://www.inquisitr.com/1264587/darren-rainey/
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Darren Rainey spent the final moments of his 50-year life in unthinkable
agony, his skin shriveling and peeling from his body as scalding hot water
blasted him for over an hour, inside a locked prison shower stall from
which there was no escape.
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Rainey, who suffered from mental illness and was serving a two-year term
in Dade Correctional Institution near Miami, Florida for cocaine
possession, was just a month from the end of his sentence on June 23,
2012. But that was the day Rainey was thrown into the locked shower by
correctional officer Roland Clarke at about 7:38 pm, according to a report
by Dade Department of Corrections Inspector General Jeffrey Beasley.
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Guards then turned on the water to maximum heat - a scalding temperature.
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The Miami Herald newspaper obtained a heavily censored copy of the
inspector general's report - which concluded that there was not enough
information about Rainey's death to reach any conclusions.
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But another inmate whose cell was located directly below the locked shower
stall said that he heard Rainey's agonizing screams beginning at about
8:55.
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"I can't take it no more, I'm sorry. I won't do it again," Rainey pleaded.
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The crime for which Rainey was boiled alive as punishment? Defecating on
his cell floor and refusing to clean up the mess.
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Two years after his death, the state has yet to compete the mentally ill
inmate's autopsy, no official cause of death has been released, and no one
has been disciplined in connection with the horrific death of Darren
Rainey.
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Guards "taunted, tormented, abused, beat, and tortured chronically
mentally ill inmates on a regular basis," according to the psychiatrist's
complaint who alleged that the horrible death suffered by Darren Rainey
was not an unusual or unexpected occurrence in the Dade Correctional
Institute.
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The inmate who said that he heard Darren Rainey screaming in agony was
never interviewed by investigators.
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Behind bars, a brutal and unexplained death
By Julie K. Brown
Miami Herald
Posted on Sunday, 05.18.14
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/17/4123183/
behind-bars-a-brutal-and-unexplained.html
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The purported details of Darren Rainey's last hour are difficult to read.
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"I can't take it no more, I'm sorry. I won't do it again,'' he screamed
over and over, according to a grievance complaint from a fellow inmate, as
Rainey was allegedly locked in a shower with the scalding water turned on
full blast.
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A 50-year-old mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution,
Rainey was pulled into the locked shower by prison guards as punishment
after defecating in his cell and refusing to clean it up, said the fellow
inmate, who worked as an orderly. He was left there unattended for more
than an hour as the narrow chamber filled with steam and water.
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When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and
dead. His skin was so burned that it had shriveled from his body, a
condition referred to as slippage, according to a medical document
involving the death.
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But nearly two years after Rainey's death on June 23, 2012, the Miami-Dade
medical examiner has yet to complete an autopsy and Miami-Dade police have
not charged anyone. The Florida Department of Corrections halted its probe
into the matter, saying it could be restarted if the autopsy and police
investigation unearth new information.
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"They told people that he had a heart attack,'' said a source close to the
prison system with knowledge of the case.
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The shower treatment was only one form of punishment inflicted by the
prison's guards to keep mentally ill patients in line, according to the
inmate/orderly and two other sources privy to the goings-on at the state
prison.
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The inmate/orderly, a convicted burglar named Harold Hempstead serving a
decades-long sentence, filed repeated formal complaints, beginning in
January 2013, with the DOC inspector general, alleging that prison guards
subjected inmates - housed in the mental health unit - to extreme physical
abuse and withheld food from some who became unruly. The complaints were
sent back, most with a short, type-written note saying the appeal was
being returned "without action" or had already been addressed.
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In September, another inmate was found dead inside his cell. Richard Mair,
40, hanged himself from an air conditioning vent.
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According to the police report, Mair left a suicide note in his boxer
shorts claiming he and other prisoners were sexually and physically abused
on a routine basis by guards.
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DOC officials declined to be interviewed for this story. A spokeswoman
said Friday that the agency would provide public records in response to
the newspaper's formal written requests, but no comments.
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Over the past several weeks, the newspaper has requested maintenance
records, grievance logs, prison death records, guards' disciplinary
records and emails by administrators, including DCI Warden Jerry Cummings.
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As of Friday, the agency had released a handful of documents: a single
report about a prison guard admonished for falling asleep on duty last
year; brief, coded disciplinary records for Hempstead, Rainey and several
other inmates who Hempstead says were also subjected to searing hot
showers as punishment; and a heavily redacted copy of the DOC inspector
general's report on Rainey's death.
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On Friday, the Herald learned from three independent sources that Cummings
and four of his top aides had been temporarily relieved of duty last week.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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