Essay on the murder of Darren Rainey

Essay on the Murder of Darren Rainey. Dear APWA Readers: The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at Dade Correctional Institution in the Florida Department of Correction (FDC) houses some of the most severe mentally disabled inmates in FDC. From April 2011 till December 2012, I worked as a special housing orderly in this TCU at Dade CI. During the time that I worked in the Dade CI TCU I seen mentally disabled inmates starved, physically abused, tortured and murdered. The worse thing I seen was the murder of black, mentally disabled Muslim prisoner Darren Rainey. For a 6 month period in 2012, a shower in the Dade CI TCU was being used as a torturing devise to punish mentally disabled inmates. The shower reached temperatures in excess of [100?] degrees. If a mentally disabled inmate didn't do what staff told him to do, the inmate was placed in the shower, the shower was turned on full and no cold, and the inmate was left in the shower for up to 2 hours. The shower was big enough for the inmate in the shower to avoid the water coming from the shower hole. However, the inmate couldn't avoid the extreme heat and steam from the hot water. The fifth inmate placed in this shower as torture was killed in the shower. His name was Darren Rainey. I witnessed his murder. From the night Rainey was killed (June 23, 2012) till April 2014, I tried to get justice for Darren Rainey to no avail. In April 2014, I advised the Miami Herald newspaper about the murder. In May 2014 the Miami Herald started writing articles on Darren Rainey's. Since 2014, the murder of Darren Rainey has appeared in thousands of news articles across the world. To learn more about the brutal murder of Darren Rainey you can google "Darren Rainey," my name "Harold Hempstead" and/or a nickname of mine "caged crusader." When Darren Rainey was taken out of the above mentioned shower, a lot of his skin was coming off him from how hot the shower water was. As your reading newspaper on Darren Rainey, you'll see pictures of his body after it was taken out of the shower. I believe those pictures appear in a May 2017 Miami Herald newspaper article. I'll be submitting more essays on the Darren Rainey murder, other civil rights projects, and prison reform in the future. Respectfully submitted, Harold Hempstead