There are just no words for people this evil

[Jarlaxle]

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A mentally ill man is tortured to death...and no charges were filed.

[liberty]

As my mama used to say, “Right is right and wrong is wrong and it doesn’t matter who it is”. But, no one cares unless it happen to someone they care about.

Miami, FL — In 2012, a 50-year-old mentally ill prison inmate named Darren Rainey died while locked in a scalding hot shower, rigged to inflict retribution on prisoners, by guards at Dade Correctional Institution.

Guards put the schizophrenic man in the shower as punishment for defecating in his cell. Instead of getting Rainey the help that he obviously needed, guards took it upon themselves to inflict torturous punishment for hours.

When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. According to the original documents involving his death, investigators noted that he’d been left in the hot steam for so long that his skin had shriveled from his body, a condition referred to as slippage.

According to the Miami Herald:

Prison officers took him to the small shower, which had been rigged to be controlled from an adjoining room, locked the door and left him there for up two hours as the stall filled with steam. Harold Hempstead, an inmate-orderly who was in a cell almost directly below the shower, told the Miami Herald he heard Rainey screaming for forgiveness.
“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 Hempstead.

Had Hempstead not risked his own safety to get this story to the press, no one would have even known about it.

For more than three years, not one of the guards involved in the torture and death of Rainey have been disciplined.

And now, just last week, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s autopsy report concluded that Rainey died from complications of schizophrenia, heart disease and “confinement” in the shower — but ruled that his death was ‘accidental.’

Authorities continue to keep the autopsy report private, but sources close to the investigation told the Miami Herald that the autopsy concluded that corrections officers had “no intent” to harm Rainey when they kept him in the shower for up to two hours.

Apparently Rainey’s cries of agony and apologies, which compelled other inmates to blow the whistle, were not because he was being harmed.

“I have not reviewed the M.E. report, but it defies logic that the conclusion is that Darren Rainey’s death was accidental,” said Howard Simon, the ACLU’s executive director in Florida. “This is why we called for and still need an independent investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.”
The Dade Correctional Institution is no stranger to corruption and has been in the news numerous times in recent years for extreme cases of prisoner abuse.

According to local sources, 40-year-old Richard Mair hung himself from an air conditioning vent and left a suicide note claiming that he and other inmates were sexually and physically abused by guards on numerous different occasions.

According to the State Attorney’s office, they must now decide whether or not to bring charges against the officers involved. However, judging from the sheer length of this investigation and the recent ‘accidental’ death claim, it is unlikely that anyone will be held accountable.

The Free Thought Project’s attempt to get a statement from the State Attorney’s Office was declined.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the

[dales]

It even happens in the best of jails.

(I should know, I was on the same floor in the same facility in 1997)

SAN JOSE -- The jail echoes at night with the rumble of boots on the stairs, the rattle of keys, and sometimes, the thuds of body blows and the pleas for mercy.

Ruben Garcia heard it all from his cell in the Santa Clara County Main Jail the night in August when Michael Tyree, a mentally ill drifter with a minor rap sheet, was found beaten to death in a nearby cell. Garcia said that he, too, has endured similar brutality -- and has a broken jaw to show for it.

Inmates have a name, Garcia said, for a group of correctional officers on the night shift that included the three charged with murder in Tyree's death and beating a second inmate earlier that same summer night. They call them "the Wrecking Crew."

"I've been through San Quentin, Pelican Bay, Corcoran and High Desert," Garcia, 50, a former gang member, said during a jailhouse interview, reeling off his involuntary tour of California's notorious prisons. "I was in Folsom in the '80s when we were at war with the Mexican Mafia.

"I've been beaten up. But I've never been beaten down like this."

Until Tyree's death, the stories behind hundreds of excessive force accusations against Santa Clara County jail guards had been locked up with the inmates. They were easy to discount, since the inmates' own histories of crime, malice and deceit have long made their allegations difficult to believe. And in the aftermath of Tyree's death and the multimillion-dollar lawsuits that surely will follow, attorneys who represent the guards insist the motivation for inmates to lie or exaggerate only grows.

read more here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts ... side-santa

[kmccune]

These so called " correctional facilities " are the purest bunk , they are mostly make work for a class of people " not everyone , of course " who couldnt get a job with benefits any other way and unfortunately a lot of the COs are on power trips a lot of the smaller facilites are full of of people that the Judges and Commonwealth attorneys put in there to make themselves look good and the regional jail I was a guest at before "going down the road " was basically a drunk tank ,with people going to prison because they were drunks (not so much to worry about in a small town ) The whole system needs overhaul ,why does the country with the most freedom ,have the highest percentage of prisoners? ,you tell me .
(Hey dude, follow the money trail-Guess whos name was on our jail underwear )a very highly respected TV celeb .

[MajGenl.Meade]

they are mostly make work for a class of people

I don't see much difference between inmates and guards on that score. Unfortunately. There should be

[TPFKA@W]

they are mostly make work for a class of people

I don't see much difference between inmates and guards on that score. Unfortunately. There should be

A period at the end of the sentence? What do I win?

[MajGenl.Meade]

My undying admiration

[TPFKA@W]

My undying admiration

Ew.

[kmccune]

The system is broken .

[Long Run]

The guards in this story are criminals themselves, but are not representative of the workforce who do a thankless job of keeping criminals locked up. I've known a couple and when they retire, they often have to move across country so that the animals they have to try to contain cannot seek "revenge" when they get out.

[MajGenl.Meade]

[BoSoxGal]

(Hey dude, follow the money trail-Guess whos name was on our jail underwear )a very highly respected TV celeb .

[Guinevere]

The guards in this story are criminals themselves, but are not representative of the workforce who do a thankless job of keeping criminals locked up. I've known a couple and when they retire, they often have to move across country so that the animals they have to try to contain cannot seek "revenge" when they get out.

I've done work on behalf of various Sheriff's departments, which are the jail keepers here in MA. Let's just say that correctional officers are a very different, very weird breed, even when compared to other law enforcement. Too often they are the men and women who didn't make it in the police academy/police department or through that selection process.

[kmccune]

My shorts had Bob Barker ,on them .Probably to much info ,but think a little ,someone profits from this stuff and rumor had it that a very prominent First Lady owned a major portion of the commisary business which serviced the correctional institutes and jails (overpriced and poor quality ) overpriced you say ? Try over a dollar @ Ramen noodle pack in some instances . (Heh heh , thats criminal )

[Jarlaxle]

The guards in this story are criminals themselves, but are not representative of the workforce who do a thankless job of keeping criminals locked up. I've known a couple and when they retire, they often have to move across country so that the animals they have to try to contain cannot seek "revenge" when they get out.

I've done work on behalf of various Sheriff's departments, which are the jail keepers here in MA. Let's just say that correctional officers are a very different, very weird breed, even when compared to other law enforcement. Too often they are the men and women who didn't make it in the police academy/police department or through that selection process.

I worked with a couple of retired correction officers at my last job...and honestly, I would rather work with most of the inmates. Their casual disregard for decency was just frightening.

[RayThom]

My shorts had Bob Barker ,on them .Probably to much info ,but think a little ,someone profits from this stuff and rumor had it that a very prominent First Lady owned a major portion of the commisary business which serviced the correctional institutes and jails (overpriced and poor quality ) overpriced you say ? Try over a dollar @ Ramen noodle pack in some instances . (Heh heh , thats criminal )

C'mon down! So much for that rumor. Bob Barker:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/barker.asp

[MajGenl.Meade]

Typical scuttlebut - good job, Ray (although his rumor was something to do with a First Lady - probably the evil, evil Barbara Bush... BB, huh! BB! Not a coincidence!).

Besides, Ramen noodles at $1 is just part of "Make 'em pay! Make 'em pay!"

[wesw]

yeah, I ve known a few prison guards.

real pcs of work.....

[oldr_n_wsr]

Never met any prison guards but I have met a few psych ward orderlies.

[Scooter]

The guards in this story are criminals themselves, but are not representative of the workforce

That's why it took an inmate orderly to report this murder, and not another guard. That why the existence of this "shower" and its use was not made known long before it resulted in someone being boiled alive.