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China Pledges to Stop Harvesting Organs from Executed Prisoners by On March 23, 2012, government officials in China said they plan to stop harvesting organs from the thousands of prisoners who are executed each year. However, many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs is too …
Article • November 15, 2011
New York Prisoner’s Medical Experimentation Complaint Improperly Dismissed by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New York federal district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s claim that he was subject to “inhumane treatment” by having medical experiments conducted on him. The 1971 claim of prisoner Otis Clay was brought …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
U.S. Admits Infecting Prisoners, Mentally Ill Patients in Guatemala in 1940s by Derek Gilna The United States’ relationship with the Central American nation of Guatemala probably hit a new low in October 2010 with the revelation that as part of U.S. medical studies conducted over sixty years ago in Guatemala, …
Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” by by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health …
Physicians for Human Rights: CIA Performed Illegal Medical Experiments While Torturing Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a report released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in June 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) performed illegal non-consensual human medical experiments on high-value terrorism detainees in connection with …
Publication • October 1, 2010
Healthcare Copay Report, 2010 - Bureau of Prisons Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of 2000 Report to Congress Status Report: October 2010 Legislative Summary: On October 12, 2000, the President signed into law the Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-294) (codified at 18 U.S.C. § …
Houston Police Department Conducted Blood Draw Training on Prisoners by Greg Dober In 2009, to expedite DWI arrests, the Houston Police Department sent seven officers to Lone Star College to be trained as certified phlebotomists. A phlebotomist is a qualified medical technician who draws a person’s blood. During the course …
Statute of Limitations Bars Damages Claim for Voluntary Participation in Human Experiments; Ninth Circuit Reverses and Remands; Case Settles for $1.5 Million by An Oregon federal district court granted summary judgment against a former prisoner who brought suit on his behalf and that of a class of Oregon Department of …
Organ Harvesting In China Prison Goes High Tech by Gary Hunter China’s Ministry of Health currently employs several teams of specialized doctors to harvest organs from condemned prisoners. When a prisoner is scheduled to die selected teams are sent to China’s Changi Prison depending upon which organs are to be …
Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter In 1977, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed a technique called plastination. The process involves slicing open human cadavers, exposing or extracting the internal …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
No Prison Guinea Pigs: President Obama Should Act Now To Ensure Prisoners Aren’t Used For Medical Research by Allen M. Hornblum No Prison Guinea Pigs: President Obama Should Act Now To Ensure Prisoners Aren’t Used For Medical Research by Allen M. Hornblum and Jeffrey Ian Ross We keep hearing that …
Article • January 15, 2009
A true story that Oprah won't touch by By ALLEN M. HORNBLUM Though I long ago jettisoned the notion of hearing from Oprah, Eddie Anthony continues to wait for the big call from Chicago. Unlike me, he's a dreamer and holds out hope that Ms. Winfrey will recognize the power …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Jail Prisoners Get Rapid HIV Tests by A relatively new rapid HIV test has been used on over 31,000 jail prisoners in four different states. The testing was made possible by grants from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The grants were part of a project to expand the use …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Survivors Guide to Medical Research in Prison by Greg Dober When one thinks of all the “Survivor Guides” that could be written for prisoners, the last one that comes to mind is for participating as a trial subject in medical research experiments. Yet medicine is science. Scientific theories and developments …
Article • July 15, 2008
Sixth Circuit Reverses Denial of Complaint Amendment by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s order denying a Tennessee prisoner leave to amend his complaint to substitute actual parties for Doe Defendants. In July 1996, Tennessee prisoner Alexander Friedmann (PLN’s Associate Editor) requested to have a notice …
Junk Bonds to Junk Science? Drug Treatment Program Questioned by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober What was worth approximately $554 million in 2007 and is valued at about $94 million today? The correct answer is the stock market value of a firm formerly known as Alaska Freightways Inc., a shell …
Article • June 15, 2008
Medical Experimentation Suits Time Barred by 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, …
Concealment of Medical Experiments Tolls Statute of Limitations by The plaintiffs sued over medical experiments ("boron neutron capture therapy") performed on their terminally ill relatives in the 1950s and then covered up. The right of access to courts is violated when government officials wrongfully and intentionally conceal information crucial to …
Article • May 15, 2008
No Cause of Action Under International Law for Medical Experiments by Plaintiffs complaining about being subjected to medical experiments in a mental hospital "have not established a cause of action for civil responsibility for crimes against humanity." (42) Although international law "is an inseparable part of American jurisprudence and as …
Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober "It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life and health of that person on whom clinical research is being carried out." Declaration of Helsinki In June 2006, …
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