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Darren Rainey Case

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One Saturday in June 2012, Darren Rainey, a fifty-year-old man that suffered from severe schizophrenia had defecated himself in his prison cell at the Dade Correctional Institution Transitional Care Unit in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A fellow inmate complained of him doing so, and following that, a group of guards went over his cell to investigate. Rainey was escorted out of his cell and taken to have a shower. Krzykowski, a counselor at the facility who heard of the incident, felt satisfied that he was going to be taken to the showers, “I was thinking, O.K., lots of times people feel good after a shower, so maybe he will calm down. A nice, gentle shower with warm water.” The guards locked Darren Rainey in a shower with blasting one hundred …show more content…

The mistreatment of Darren Rainey at the Dade Correctional Institution Transitional Care Unit is only one of the many cases of abuse in the facility. In an article written by Eyal Press titled “Madness,” former counselor Krykowski recalls an inmate complaining that empty food trays were being delivered to them. She also recalls that many inmates were shockingly skinny, implying starvation. Former inmate Harold Hempstead says that “If more counselors have been willing to stand up for the prisoners, the majority of that stuff wouldn't have happened.” This being said by a person who had a first-hand account of cruelty is a shocking revelation that supports tremendously the belief that humans have an obligation to help each other in times of distress or …show more content…

One very infamous case of basic human rights being violated is the Holocaust. Individuals in Nazi Germany, both native and foreign, knew about how the Jewish people were being violently persecuted. Other countries such as the United States also knew of the horrific acts committed against those of the Jewish heritage, but feigned ignorance to not damage trade deals. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Wiesel recalls, “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? ” (Wiesel 32). Wiesel is shocked that nobody is doing a thing to stop these horrific crimes against the Jewish people. It can be reasonably inferred that if someone or something with a higher influence spoke out publicly in time, and helped take action against the crimes and horrible

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Wiesel wanted to make us feel sad and trust him by using pathos in the speech. At the beginning of the speech, he states, “Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” In this part of his talk, he tells the people that no one can ever make up for the loss of so many people in the concentration camps.

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