Darren Rainey died in June 2012 as an inmate in custody at the Dade Correctional Institution in South Florida. His story is one of the glaring reasons why we need protections against cruel and unusual punishment, since other inmates claim that he was burned “like a boiled lobster” after spending two hours in a shower that guards had modified to punish prisoners.
After issuing a mind numbingly 101-page report, his death was ruled an accident by Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and guards were cleared of any wrongdoing. Of course, documents reviewed by Huffington Post indicate that the prosecutor’s report does not contain the whole story. In fact, it would seem that information from the police, the prison and emergency services were all somehow mysteriously excluded from the report, which paint a very different picture of the circumstances of Rainey’s death. Hint: they suggest that Rainey was murdered.
Numerous official photos taken of Rainey’s body several hours after he died were also reviewed by HuffPost. The images reveal extreme damage to his skin, with wounds over his entire body and significant sections of skin missing, exposing red and white tissue and, in some areas, what appear to be blood vessels. A medical examiner who has reviewed the Rainey autopsy and to whom HuffPost described the information contained in the records says the cause of death as stated doesn’t make sense.
Just to be clear—Fernandez Rundle called Rainey’s death an accident resulting from his schizophrenia, heart disease and confinement in the shower room. Yet, one need not be a medical expert to understand that everything described in these photos and documents sounds like someone who was burned to death. Again, none of these details makes it into the prosecutor’s report.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2o40lG2
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