A killing, then threats and a coverup.
That’s what three former inmates at Dade Correctional Institution independently claim happened on and after June 23, 2012, when Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old, mentally-ill prisoner, was allegedly locked in a shower by corrections officers as punishment. He was left there for as long as two hours, purportedly howling for mercy as scalding water blasted his body.
When he was found by guards, face-up, in the closet-size shower chamber, Rainey’s skin had separated from his body and he was dead.
A written record of the 911 call that night, released by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue on Tuesday, shows there was a 22-minute gap between the time corrections officers said they found Rainey’s body and the time fire rescue was summoned.
One inmate, who wrote the Department of Corrections a letter after his transfer from DCI, said he was ordered to clean up the “crime scene” during that time interval.