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A Florida prosecutor issued a 101 page reportearlier this month that cleared guards of any wrongdoing in Rainey’s death. The prosecutor, Miami Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, called Rainey’s death an accident resulting from his schizophrenia and heart disease and from confinement in the shower room.
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One record, dated Sept. 10, 2014, contains the transcript of canada goose an interview with Capt. Darlene Dixon, the environmental health and safety officer at the prison, who, two days after Rainey’s death, was ordered to check the shower’s water temperature by Warden Jerry Cummings. (Cummings was fired two years after Rainey’s deathand after another inmate died.)
Canada Goose sale The shower didn’t have working water controls in the room, and the water didn’t spray from a shower head. It had been rigged to use water taps in an adjacent janitorial closet, where piping that carried hot and cold water from the faucet went up the shared wall, through the wall and into the shower room. Canada Goose sale
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The prosecutor’s report highlights the county canada goose coats on sale medical examiner’s conclusion that Rainey wasn’t burned. But a paramedic noted skin burns in his report.
canada goose clearance A medic’s record reviewed by HuffPost from the night Rainey died indicates that he suffered burns despite the county medical examiner’s conclusion in the prosecutor’s report that he did not. Lt. Alexander Lopez, a firefighter and paramedic with Miami Dade Fire Rescue, reported that he examined Rainey’s body about 50 minutes after he was found dead on the shower floor “with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on approximately 30 percent of his body.” Also, Lopez notes that CPR was administered to Rainey and that when he arrived his body was “cool” to the touch. Rainey could have been dead up to 30 minutes before his body was discovered, according to the prosecutor’s report. canada goose clearance
The report notes the CPR Rainey received and Lopez’s view that Rainey’s body was “cool” but omits the skin burn information. Instead, the report suggests that Lopez believed what he saw were “burns and/or skin slippage,” the report reads.
The prosecutor’s report says a nurse failed to take Rainey’s body temperature. But in her original report, she noted that she had and it registered nearly 105 degrees.
An emergency room record from the Florida Department of Corrections dated the night of Rainey’s death also notes substantial burns on Rainey’s body. Britney Wilson, who worked at Dade Correctional Institution as a licensed practical nurse, writes buy canada goose jacket in her report, which indicates she examined Rainey’s body 10 minutes after it was discovered, that he was found with “1st degree burns to 90% of his body” and that his skin was “hot/warm” to the touch.
She also notes that she took his “tympanic” body temperature (via his ear), and it was 104.9 degrees.(A body temperature above 103 is considered dangerous, according to the Mayo Clinic.) These details are largely omitted from the prosecutor’s memo, which indicates only that Wilson observed that Rainey’s skin “appeared red and wrinkled,” that she told a 911 operator that “Rainey’s body appeared to be burned” and that she “noticed some skin slippage.” The most notable inconsistency is that the memo canada goose clearance sale says Wilson tried “unsuccessfully” to take Rainey’s temperature.
Photos of Rainey’s body and indications of thermometer readings suggest his body temperature was “much higher than normal when he died,” a top pathologist says.
HuffPost also examined about Canada Goose Jackets 10 images of Rainey’s body taken by county officials about 12 hours after he was discovered dead.
The disturbing images show severe wounds on numerous sections of Rainey’s skin. Entire swaths of skin and, in places, what appear to be multiple layers buy canada goose jacket cheap are either missing, bunched up at the edges of wounds or hanging loosely at the edges of wounds.
Some wounds are a deep red, with blood vessels clearly visible. Other wounds expose underlying tissue.
uk canada goose Rainey’s chest and back appear to be the most severely damaged. His chest wound exposes a dark red layer of tissue from his neck to mid abdomen. White tissue is exposed on his entire upper and mid back with some red splotches throughout the large exposed area. uk canada goose
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One image shows a rectal thermometer reading of about 94 degrees the temperature of his body believed to have been taken the morning after his death.
buy canada goose jacket The photos and the temperature reading were described to Dr. Michael Baden, a nationally recognized forensic pathologist known for his work on many high profile deaths, including the private autopsy conducted on Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and for his work on HBO’s “Autopsy” series. buy canada goose jacket
Baden explained that the 94 degree temperature may be unusual.”This temperature would indicate, if the photos were taken about 10 or 12 hours after he died, that his body temperature was much higher than normal when he died,” Baden said.
canada goose clearance sale He explained that when a person dies, body temperature drops about 1.5 degrees every hour, on average, depending on the temperature of the environment the body is kept in. If a person dies in a 70 degree room, 10 hours later, pathologists would expect the body temperature to have dropped about 15 degrees. And that would speed up if the body was placed in Canada Goose Outlet a cold environment or slow down in a warm one. Although it’s not clear if Rainey’s body was put into refrigeration in the medical examiner’s office before these photos were taken, that would be a standard procedure, Baden said. That means that if Rainey’s body temperature was still 94 degrees the morning after he died, his body temperature may have been as high as 109 degrees when he died canada goose clearance sale.