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The civil lawsuit describes Rainey as a “mentally ill man” who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which “impaired... Rainey’s major life activities.”
Rainey was locked up for cocaine possession, but according to the civil lawsuit, he was also riddled with mental health issues. Rainey was on psychotropic medication “to manage his mental illness” and was having an episode, the lawsuit says, when he was creating chaos.
“Rainey was disheveled and had poor functioning, distorted thinking, and was smearing feces all over his cell,” the lawsuit said, adding days later he smeared his feces all over his cell and also on himself. It was a “manifestation of his serious mental illness.”
Instead of following protocol and notifying mental health staffers to intervene, the lawsuit contends the two correctional officers resorted to “torture and retaliated against a mentally ill inmate on the unit.”
It’s called “shower treatment.” A specific shower stall was apparently “altered or broken” and sprayed “scalding hot water” in a locked area where inmates “cannot control the pre-set water or the water temperature.”
How long an inmate is kept in the shower is determined by the omnipresent guards, the lawsuit states.
“Once placed inside, inmates cannot leave the shower unless released by the officers.”
On this day it was allegedly Rainey’s turn to get the shower treatment.
With Rainey defecating and not in his right mind, Officers Clarke and Thompson “maliciously and sadistically turned on scalding hot water in Rainey’s shower in retaliation for [his] smearing feces on his body and cell,” the lawsuit claims.
The guards apparently taunted Rainey but, according to fellow inmate Mark Joiner, they disregarded Rainer’s screams, before taunting him. “He was crying, ‘Please stop, please stop, please stop,’” Joiner told the Herald.
The last words Rainey ever heard were said to be, “Enjoy your shower.”
Shrieks and screams from Rainey were ignored as he boiled for two hours, the lawsuit claims.
Finally, nurses discovered Rainey “lying on his back on the shower floor” and he was “non-responsive, had no pulse and had no respirations,” he lawsuit says. Nurses tried to resuscitate Rainey, to no avail.
After he was removed, Rainey’s fellow inmate Joiner told the Herald he was handed a bottle of Clorox bleach and told to scoop up “large chunks of human skin.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...o-death-then-rushed-to-burn-the-evidence.html
The guards, the prison, and the medical examiner tried to cover the whole thing up.