Death of Darren Rainey

[4] Originally, the police classified the death as unexplained, and the DOC did not punish any staff until the warden was fired two years later.

The police began interviewing witnesses after the Miami Herald obtained public records and made a visit to the prison.

[8] As a result of the police investigation, human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, and the Florida Council of Churches sent a letter to the United States Attorney General Eric Holder asking for intervention from the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ).

[3] In April 2014, George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist who worked from 2008 to 2011 at the Dade Correctional Institution's psychiatric ward called the Transitional Care Unit, filed a complaint with the USDOJ about the way mentally ill prisoners are treated.

[9] In July 2014 Mike Crews, the FDOC secretary, suspended Jerry Cummings, the warden of the Dade Correctional institution, and put him on paid leave.

The autopsy was leaked to the Miami Herald and ruled Rainey's death as accidental, stemming from a combination of the confinement in the shower, his heart/lung problems and his schizophrenia.