Prisoner Testing Research Paper

Prisoner Testing The years 1965 & 1966, Dr. Albert Kligman gave 75 prisoners a dosage of dioxin, a chemical used in Agent Orange, 468 times greater than protocol. Agent orange was an herbicide used by the US during the Vietnam War to clear its dense vegetation. Those who came in contact with this herbicide had horrible side effects such as birth defects, cysts, swollen body parts & etc. According to Keramet Reiter, a UC Irvine graduate in the department of criminology, the prisoners faced such consequences as those who were affected by the war and also had additional scars, blisters, & continuos rashes. These 75 prisoners were not the only humans taken advantage of during an experiment, but also there have been cases where non-prisoners were abused of which is why I stand on the negation of the bill,” The United States federal government should legalize medical and pharmaceutical testing on prisoners that have committed murder. This includes prisoners in public, federal, or state prisons and private prisons.” Although there are regulations meant to prevent the exploitation of prisoners, it is not guaranteed. According to the
Tuskegee experiment 1923, 600 non-prisoners were taken into an experiment with false information. They believed they had ‘bad blood’ which is a word that meant for many illnesses. Out of the 600, 399 were infected with syphilis and 324 of these infected died from being malnourished and not being treated properly. The original experiment was meant to last 6 years, but this expanded into 40 years, ending in the 1970s. In between the 40 years, penicillin was proven to be a treatment for syphilis & the regulations were made. Yet this experiment continued with these 600 men who were falsely informed of what they had. These non-prisoner were aleady msitreated making the possibilities of an actual prisoner being maltreated very