Mentally ill man scalded to death in Miami Dade Jail in 2012. No one held accountable as of 2014.

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The purported details of Darren Rainey’s last hour are difficult to read.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/17/4123183_behind-bars-a-brutal-and-unexplained.html

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Other incidents of inmate abuse

[Rex]

1. That is medieval, I guess we are living in the Dark Ages.

How totally horrific. The pain he must have gone through probably is comparable to being on fire. Of COURSE I don't expect anyone to be held accountable.

[Jefferson23]

2. The scum that did this are not charged with murder? Sickening corruption. n/t

[malaise]

6. Amazing how many of these so called representative democracies

practice cruel and unusual punishment. And it's not only in the USA either.

[Jefferson23]

7. You got that right my friend...sickens me. This was murder by torture, depraved indifference. n/t

[malaise]

8. We have the extra-judicial killings where the cop is judge,

jury and executioner. The good news is that people have had enough and they're beginning to be arrested for murder.
I won't even discuss the prison conditions,

[Jefferson23]

9. People with mental health issues should not be warehoused in prison, and the US

prison system is barbaric from top to bottom.

[malaise]

10. Very true

People with mental health issues need medical care.
Many of the judicial branches of government across the globe have failed humanity big time.

[Jefferson23]

11. Yes, because they are fucking dumb and or corrupt..prison is privatized now...money, money.

The answers to confronting crime are not that elusive:

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people

[malaise]

13. The Scandinavians understand humanity

and yet they have the best quality societies

[Jefferson23]

15. We could learn a lot..like stop hating and use your brain and your humanity to solve serious

problems..here it's too often all about being punitive, even to kids!

[malaise]

16. Old Testament vengeance

permeates our societies. Too many folks are genuinely cruel.

[Jefferson23]

17. Yea, we need to evolve and it would help if we end all the St Reagan privatize garbage too.

One day, people as you say, are sick of where we are as a society...too much pain and no growth.

[malaise]

18. Privatize simply means loot the state

and share the profits among cronies - let us prey

[Jefferson23]

19. lol, yep. n/t

[azurnoir]

3. Horrific death

how on earth has no one been charged in this case? The Feds really need to take a look at this one, it was at the very very least negligent homicide

[SamKnause]

4. I am so fucking disgusted with the gangs in blue in

this country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The people who did this are heartless, soulless, murdering, criminals.

It has gotten to the point that the prisoners are the good guys and the "police officers", "prison guards", and the "judges" are the true criminals.

Our prisons and jails are places of TORTURE and MURDER !!!!

The police departments are filled with evil vengeful psychopaths.

No one deserves to die like this.

No one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed Suspicious]

5. I think we should boil them in oil the people

who put this man through this.


Just kidding.

[moriah]

12. Death for cocaine possession apparently is the new vogue for mentally ill prisoners?

I know my father hated being in jail. But I'm glad he never had anything like this happen to him.

[VScott]

14. The people who become prison guards

do so because they're either unqualified, unfit, failed to pass the entrance exam (or, failed the academy), to become police officers.

That should tell you something.

[Enthusiast]

20. This is torture and murder.

But the guy was black so it's okay. Save us from these cruel miscreants.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. The second video the guard was reinstated after being fired

by the Maine correctional board after he went through some 'additional training'.....

[aikoaiko]

22. This seems like a on easy case of manslaughter

And maybe murder depending on what other facts are provable.