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Stanford University Tests Drugs on Imprisoned Juveniles
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 11
During 1997 researchers from Stanford University were allowed to conduct drug trials on 61 teenagers imprisoned at the California Youth Facility (CYA) in Stockton. According to the Associated Press, state officials have indicated that those tests may have violated a state law banning medical research on prisoners.The juveniles, aged ...
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