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Title: Prosecutors: No crime in Florida inmate's hot-shower death
Source: The Big Story
URL Source: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cbc3 ... orida-inmates-hot-shower-death
Published: Mar 17, 2017
Author: Curt Anderson
Post Date: 2017-03-19 05:48:06 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 9624
Comments: 60

MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors in Florida have found no evidence of a crime in the death of a prison inmate left for nearly two hours in a hot shower, concluding that he died accidentally in part because of undiagnosed heart disease and suffered no burn injuries.

The memo released Friday by the office of Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle ends a lengthy criminal probe into the 2012 death of 50-year-old Darren Rainey, a mentally troubled man serving a two-year sentence on a cocaine charge.

An attorney for Rainey's family, Milton Grimes of Los Angeles, said in a statement that the family is "disappointed and heartbroken" no charges will be brought.

"This is not justice for Darren, for his family, nor for the mentally ill who have been subject to similar abuse and mistreatment," Grimes said.

The investigation found no evidence that officers at the Dade Correctional Institution regularly used the hot shower to punish or torture inmates, as some of them claimed after Rainey's death. Assistant State Attorneys Kathleen Hoague and Johnette Hardiman said in the 72-page memo that one inmate's assertions that Rainey was screaming for help and had been scalded to death were unfounded.

"The evidence fails to show that any correctional officer acted in reckless disregard of Rainey's life," they wrote.

Rainey was taken to the shower on June 23, 2012, after he had smeared feces on himself, the walls of his cell and his bedsheets. The shower, which was operated from an adjoining room by a corrections officer to prevent inmates from turning it off, was activated but Rainey refused to stand under the water, according to the memo.

Officer Roland Clarke told Rainey he couldn't go back to his cell until he washed off. Finally, Rainey said he would comply and asked for soap, which he was given, the memo says.

After starting to wash, Rainey said, "No, I don't want to do this," and leaned on a wall away from the water, Clarke told investigators. Officers continued to check on him, and finally after about two hours the decision was made to take Rainey out of the shower, but he was found lying face up in about 3 inches (8 centimeters) of water with no pulse and not breathing.

One inmate, Harold Hempstead, said he heard Rainey yelling and kicking at the shower door, saying, "I'm sorry. I won't do it any more" and "I can't take it no more." The prosecutors found Hempstead's claims, which he repeated to several news outlets, were not supported by other evidence, including video footage from inside the prison.

"Hempstead's testimony is inherently unreliable and therefore not credible," Hoague and Hardiman wrote.

Several witnesses said Rainey's skin appeared to be peeled back or reddish in some spots — one inmate claimed he looked like a "boiled lobster" — but an autopsy found this "slippage" was most likely caused by friction or pressure on his moist and warm skin. This could have happened during efforts to revive him, such as chest compressions, or when officers carried him out of the shower initially, the memo said.

The medical examiner, Emma Lew, attributed Rainey's death to a combination of his schizophrenia, heart disease and confinement in the small shower space. She said schizophrenic people can have nervous system reactions that trigger a heart attack if they have an underlying condition.

"It is not substantiated that the temperatures inside the shower room were excessively high," Lew wrote.

The prosecutors determined that corrections officers did not commit murder or manslaughter in Rainey's death and that taking him to the shower was appropriate under the circumstances.

"Placing an inmate who has defecated upon himself in a shower to decontaminate himself is not conduct that is criminally reckless," they wrote. "There was no evidence of any intent to harm Rainey."

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#7. To: Gatlin (#0) (Edited)

in the death of a prison inmate left for nearly two hours in a hot shower

Is that standard procedure for the inmates to get two hour showers?

Why did someone give him a two hour shower?

Is there a law that says if you act up they put you in a shower for two hours?

Sorry but most prison guards are assholes who abuse their power They are not corrections officers they are guards. They did a study on guards at prisons and found this

"This research did not deal specifically with the issue of compliance but instead focused on the degree to which individuals adopted prescribed roles and the psychologically caustic effects of the prison environment upon guards and prisoners alike. The researchers observed “extremely pathological reactions that emerged in both groups of subjects” (Haney et al. 1973-80) with some guards becoming aggressive and sadistic while some prisoners became withdrawn and depressed. These results forced researchers to terminate the experiment after only six days although it had been scheduled for two weeks. *Haney et al. 1973) This study found that “throughout the experiment commands were given the most frequent form of verbal behavior” *Haney et al. 1973:80) Generally, the study found that prisoners to be compliant with the commands of the guards, with only 32 incidents of physical resistance observed this despite an escalation in the amount of harassment the guards demonstrated towards the prisoners”."

You can read the full report here.

www.zimbardo.com/download...20of%20Prisoners%20and%20 Guards,%20Naval%20Research%20Reviews.pdf

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-03-19   10:08:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: A K A Stone (#7)

Is that standard procedure for the inmates to get two hour showers?

You shouldn't even allow prison showers that run at 160°F, as reported in one of these articles. You have laws against that kind of thing in rest homes and homes for disabled people for this exact reason.

That sounded disturbing to me. There should have been an independent autopsy.

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A Herald investigation, first published in May, showed through public records and interviews by witnesses, including a nurse on duty at the time, that Rainey’s death was never properly investigated by the Department of Corrections or Miami-Dade police. Evidence also suggests that the Department of Corrections might have tried to cover up the incident.

Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami- dade/article1972693.html#storylink=cpy

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