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Medical Experimentation Suits Time Barred

In an unpublished opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that 298 former prisoners waited too long to sue over medical experiments performed on them in jail, between 1961 and 1974.

From the 1950s until 1974, prisoners at the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were deliberately exposed to diseases ...

 

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