FLORIDA PRISONERS DENIED TOILET PAPER AND LEFT WITH UNTREATED INJURIES, LAWMAKER CLAIMS
Source: Newsweek
BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 7/20/17 AT 6:04 PM
Inmates at several prisons in Florida were left with untreated medical problems and were denied basic items such as toilet paper in conditions described by one lawmaker as “inhumane,” The Miami Herald reported Thursday.
Democratic representative David Richardson toured Tomoka Correctional Institution last Saturday and saw an inmate with an open wound that had reportedly been left untreated for four days and another, who was vomiting in his cell, reportedly had not been given an inhaler for his asthma for over a month.
In a series of visits to prisons overseen by the state’s embattled prisons agency, Richardson also noticed necessities such as soap, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, pillows and sheets were missing for a number of cells.
Prisoners most at risk of being without such items appeared to be those being held in solitary confinement, Richardson noted.
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JULY 14, 2017 7:50 PM
BY JULIE K. BROWN
jbrown@Miamiherald.com
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Miami-Dade medical examiner to release key evidence in the autopsy of a mentally ill inmate suspected of being scalded to death in a shower at Dade Correctional Institution.
U.S. Magistrate Alicia M. Otazo-Reyes said re-cuts of the inmate’s skin tissue as well as other organs must be sent within 10 days to the victim’s family, as well as two other experts hired by plaintiffs in the case.
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The hearing is part of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the state and others by Darren Rainey‘s family. The family claims that Rainey, 50, was burned over 90 percent of his body, and his temperature registered over 104 degrees after he was found dead in a shower at Dade Correctional Institution in 2012.
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The lawsuit alleges that Rainey — diagnosed with severe schizophrenia — was tortured by corrections officers who used a “shower treatment”’ against him and other mentally ill inmates at the prison. It claims the Florida Department of Corrections and Corizon, the firm responsible for the prison’s healthcare at the time of Rainey’s death, not only knew that mentally ill inmates were being abused at the prison, but allowed staff to cover it up.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article161518033.html
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Officials Ruled Inmates Boiling Death An Accident. Documents Show They Omitted Key Details.
Source: Huffington Post
03/28/2017 05:45 am ET | Updated 12 minutes ago
Internal reports and photos from the investigation of Florida inmate Darren Rainey’s 2012 death were reviewed by The Huffington Post.
By Matt Ferner
The June 2012 death of Darren Rainey, an inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution in South Florida, attracted national attention after other inmates claimed he was burned like “a boiled lobster” after about two hours in a shower that guards had modified to punish prisoners.
A Florida prosecutor issued a 101-page report earlier this month that cleared guards of any wrongdoing in Rainey’s death. The prosecutor, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, called Rainey’s death an accident resulting from his schizophrenia and heart disease and from confinement in the shower room.
But a trove of official documents reviewed by The Huffington Post indicates that some information from police, the prison and emergency services was not included in the prosecutor’s final report, which raises questions about the circumstances surrounding Rainey’s death. A review of the documents was permitted by a person with close access to the investigation who asked not to be identified sharing non-public information.
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. (HuffPost was not given permission to copy or share the actual documents.)
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Darren Rainey.
Rest in peace.
