Almost five years ago, Darren Rainey, a mentally ill black man serving a two-year prison sentence for drug possession, was locked in a shower by prison guards at Dade Correctional Institution in Florida after they said he defecated on himself in his cell. The water was allegedly turned up to
them. The water pressure, temperature, and the lock on the shower door were all controlled from the outside. The shower has long since been destroyed. Inmate testimony has been routinely dismissed and justice, of any kind, for Darren Rainey, has been delayed for years on end with no real explanation.
Dozens of guards and jail officials throughout the state had resigned in disgrace under several statewide investigations, but still no one has been held accountable for Darren Rainey's death. That pattern continued Friday, when prosecutors released a report obtained by the Miami Herald conclu
That Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernndez Rundle saw all of this, and more, and determined that nobody would be held account for the death of Darren Rainey is a scandal. It's one thing to make the argument that first-degree murder was not the appropriate charge and something altogeth
That Darren Rainey died on their watch, in a shower that they put him in for hours on end, with skin falling off of his body, and they didn't even lose their jobs or law enforcement certification, and that many of these staff members are still working in law enforcement is incomprehensible. W