Guards Boil Mentally Ill Inmate Alive at Dade Correctional Institution!… Security Cameras Just Happened to ‘Malfunction’!

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A new investigative report from The Miami Herald this week profiles a prison in Miami-Dade County where employees have been accused of abusing mentally-ill inmates for “sport.” ~ Ashley Lopez

According to the Herald, three former
employees of the psychiatric unit at Dade Correctional Institution have
alleged that staff at the facility were tormenting and abusing
mentally-ill inmates for years. One of the former employees took their
complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice last month.

The Herald reports:

In his complaint, George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist
assigned to the unit from 2008 to 2011, related a series of episodes,
including the death of inmate Darren Rainey.

The 50-year-old was placed
in a small, enclosed, scalding-hot shower by guards and left unattended
for more than an hour. He collapsed and died amid the searing heat,
suffering severe burns when he fell, face up, atop the drain.

His death, for which no one has been held accountable, was described in Sunday’s Miami Herald.

Mallinckrodt
was no longer with the prison at the time of Rainey’s scalding on June
23, 2012, but says he was told of the incident by a former colleague who
remained on staff.

Here is a description of his death published in the Herald a few days earlier – also via reporter Julie Brown:

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The purported details of Darren Rainey’s last hour are difficult to read.

“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 a fellow inmate,
as Rainey was allegedly locked in a shower with the scalding water
turned on full blast.

A 50-year-old mentally ill inmate at the
Dade Correctional Institution, Rainey was pulled into the locked shower
by prison guards as punishment after defecating in his cell and refusing
to clean it up, said the fellow inmate, who worked as an orderly.

He
was left there unattended for more than an hour as the narrow chamber
filled with steam and water.

When guards finally checked on
prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. His skin was so burned
that it had shriveled from his body, a condition referred to as
slippage, according to a medical document involving the death.

Nearly two years after Rainey’s death on June 23, 2012, the Miami-Dade
medical examiner has yet to complete an autopsy and Miami-Dade police
have not charged anyone.

The Florida Department of Corrections halted
its probe into the matter, saying it could be restarted if the autopsy
and police investigation unearth new information.

This delay in justice is what prompted Mallinckrodt to contact the Herald in April, Brown wrote.

According to the Herald, interviews with
former employees show the prison guards “made ‘sport’ of agitating the
mentally ill inmates, hoping for an excuse to beat or otherwise punish
them.”

One current corrections officer at the facility, who spoke
to the Herald on condition of anonymity, said prisoners in the mental
health unit who caused trouble were threatened by guards with the shower
treatment.

In his letter, Mallinckrodt said that guards
“taunted, tormented, abused, beat, and tortured chronically mentally ill
inmates on a regular basis,” hoping to provoke a response so the
inmates could then be punished.

He described specific incidents of
alleged abuse, including the beating of inmate Joseph Swilling, a
longtime criminal who showed Mallinckrodt his injuries during an anger
management session.

Swilling said guards handcuffed him behind
his back and led him into a hallway out of range of video cameras, where
they threw him on the floor and repeatedly kicked him.

A
murderer who hung himself in the unit last September, Richard Mair, left
a suicide note in his shorts accusing guards of sexually abusing
inmates and forcing black and white inmates to fight each other for the
entertainment of staff.

Mallinckrodt said he filed a variety of
complaints with the prison and the Department of Corrections’ inspector
general about the abusive treatment, but never received a response. He
said he also took his concerns directly to Warden Jerry Cummings.


The past and present employees described a litany of issues in the
mental health unit at the prison, located south of Homestead at 19000 SW
377th St.

They said prisoners were beaten or deprived of food at the
whim of guards and that inmates would defecate in their cells in protest
or break sprinklers in hopes of being charged and sent to the county
jail.

Mallinckrodt worked at the prison as an employee of a contracted
mental health services company called Corizon Health Inc. However, he
was fired two months after he reported a beating at the facility.
According to the Herald, his company ‘told him he was being let go because he took long lunches and too many breaks.”

Brown writes the Herald has requested copy of the audit by the American Correctional Association, but the state has not provided it. The Herald
also asked the Florida Department of Corrections for the personnel
files of three guards accused of wrongdoing. Those files have not been
released.

The newspaper has also requested footage from the prisons cameras and other public records. However, according to the Herald,
“the inspector general cited a ‘malfunction’ making it impossible to
view what happened after corrections officer Roland Clarke placed Rainey
in the shower.”

The paper was told emails regarding Rainey’s death could take about six months to turn over.

 

Ashley Lopez May 23, 2014 – posted at ReaderSupportedNews

 

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