Prisoner scalded to death in shower, guards will not be charged

[mikeymikec]

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/f...enic-black-man-darren-rainey-to-death-9213190

On June 23, 2012, Darren Rainey, a schizophrenic man serving time for cocaine possession, was thrown into a prison shower at the Dade Correctional Institution. The water was turned up top 180 degrees — hot enough to steep tea or cook Ramen noodles.

As punishment, four corrections officers — John Fan Fan, Cornelius Thompson, Ronald Clarke and Edwina Williams — kept Rainey in that shower for two full hours. Rainey was heard screaming "Please take me out! I can’t take it anymore!” and kicking the shower door. Inmates said prison guards laughed at Rainey and shouted "Is it hot enough?"

Rainey died inside that shower. He was found crumpled on the floor. When his body was pulled out, nurses said there were burns on 90 percent of his body. A nurse said his body temperature was too high to register with a thermometer. And his skin fell off at the touch.

But in an unconscionable decision, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office announced Friday that the four guards who oversaw what amounted to a medieval-era boiling will not be charged with a crime.

“The shower was itself neither dangerous nor unsafe,’’ the report says. “The evidence does not show that Rainey’s well-being was grossly disregarded by the correctional staff.’’

That's pretty fucked up.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.miamisao.com/pdfs/DarrenRaineyincustodydeathcloseoutmemo.pdf

 

[Ackmed]

If the facts are as the article says, and the guards knew the temp of the shower, they should be charged. I dont see how his well being was not "grossly disregarded" by the staff. They turned the water on, they put him in there. In instances like this the hammer needs to come down on the guards, in hopes it will curb such actions in the future.

 

[Meghan54]

Pssst...in your title, OP, it's scalded, not scaled......which would mean something akin to climbed, etc.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Seems a trend with that facility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade_Correctional_Institution

Just SOP I guess

 

[mikeymikec]

Pssst...in your title, OP, it's scalded, not scaled......which would mean something akin to climbed, etc.

Typo. How do I edit the title?

 

[sdifox]

Easily solved, those prison guards should be subject to the same shower. They were sure it was safe so there is no problem then.

 

[Ichinisan]

Typo. How do I edit the title?

Something at the top-right

 

[SKORPI0]

Seems a trend with that facility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade_Correctional_Institution

Just SOP I guess

Or that county prison. 13 deaths in 12 months.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article127340579.html

 

[dank69]

Easily solved, those prison guards should be subject to the same shower. They were sure it was safe so there is no problem then.

Black lives don't matter.

 

[mikeymikec]

Something at the top-right

Thx

 

[sandorski]

If the facts are as the article says, and the guards knew the temp of the shower, they should be charged. I dont see how his well being was not "grossly disregarded" by the staff. They turned the water on, they put him in there. In instances like this the hammer needs to come down on the guards, in hopes it will curb such actions in the future.

Even if he hadn't of died and they did not know the Temp, they should be charged. At the very least they Tortured him and they should be in jail due to that alone.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

2 hours in a shower seems torturous even if the hot/warm water wasn't hitting the man. Hell if I take a longer 20-30 minute hot shower I can start to have breathing issues and my heartbeat starts to race.

 

[UglyCasanova]

They deserve death


Edit: the guards I mean

 

[Theb]

The War on Drugs, where the solutions are worse than the problems.

 

[JSt0rm]

he had the freedumb to not put himself in the place with the ged prison guards.

 

[mikeymikec]

he had the freedumb to not put himself in the place with the ged prison guards.

That sounds kind of like you advocate scalding people to death for possession of drugs.

 

[theeedude]

This is why I try not to go Republican states.

 

[Victorian Gray]

This is why I try not to go Republican states.

You really think that those are the only states this stuff happens in?

 

[theeedude]

You really think that those are the only states this stuff happens in?

No, but it's far more systemic there.

 

[Victorian Gray]

No, but it's far more systemic there.

It's systemic throughout your country. Your justice system appears, to this outsider, to be systemically fucked at pretty much all levels throughout the country.

 

[WelshBloke]

They didn't scald him, they cooked the poor ah heck.

 

[theeedude]

It's systemic throughout your country. Your justice system appears, to this outsider, to be systemically fucked at pretty much all levels throughout the country.

Except people in Florida are OK with it and keep reelecting these AGs.

 

[Brainonska511]

No, but it's far more systemic there.

You should see the drip-drip-drip of articles about NYS prisons and the coverups that go on up there. It's a systemic problem throughout the US and no one gives a crap because it's happening to "bad" people. Frankly, the whole thing sickens me because these abuses are effectively being carried out in our name by the very fact that we have these people in the custody of the state.

 

[sdifox]

Except people in Florida are OK with it and keep reelecting these AGs.

I can't wrap my head around elected judiciary and law enforcement.