Following the long-awaited autopsy,the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office will decide whether any criminal charges are to be brought against any of the officersA civil rights group has stepped up its call for a federal inquiry into Florida’s troubled prison service after a medical examiner reportedly ruled the death of an inmate who was locked under a scalding shower by prison guards for almost two hours an accident.
Darren Rainey, who was schizophrenic, and died in June 2012 after he was confined to a tiny cubicle at the psychiatric unit of the Dade correctional institution near Homestead,with corrections officers controlling the water temperature from external. Several inmates reported hearing Rainey, 50, or screaming to be let out while another later claimed he was made to scrape chunks of the dead prisoner’s burned-off flesh from the cubicle floor.
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Source: theguardian.com