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Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Mining Scandal Movie review and Director Interview by Brandon Eng Filmmaker Kelly Duda’s first documentary, Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, chronicles the decades of abuse towards prisoners and patients from blood mining in search of profits. Traveling back to his home state …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum by Greg Dober Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 232 pages, 16 illustrations, Cloth Bound, $24.95 Book Review by Greg …
China Admits Illegally Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners by Gary Hunter China has long been accused of illegally harvesting human organs from its executed prisoners. On November 19, 2006 Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the suspicions were true. ?Under-the-table business must be banned,? Mr. Huang told a conference …
$75,000 Award Upheld in Use of Carcinogense Blood Detection Agency by The First Circuit has ruled that the forcible application of benzidine, known as a primary carcinogen, to prisoner's bodies was a constitutional violation and sufficient to warrant damages. On November 2 and 3, 1974, Douglas S. Gomes and several …
Article • May 15, 2007
Blood for Good Time Creates Liberty Interest by A federal district court in Rhode Island held that a Rhode Island statute giving prisoners time off their sentences in exchange for blood donations by prisoners created a liberty interest. Prisoner plaintiff was transferred out of state where he could not reduce …
Seventh Circuit Discusses Administrative Exhaustion by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoners amended complaint was the functional equivalent of a new complaint, and that new claims that were administratively exhausted after the original complaint was filed satisfied the Prison Litigation Reform Acts (PLRA) exhaustion requirement. …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Panel Suggests Using Prisoners in Drug Trials by Ian Urbina An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse. The proposed …
NO FTCA or IIED Claims Stated in Oregon Testicular Radiation Case by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner who voluntarily participated in testicular radiation experiments while in prison did not establish a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) violation. The court also held that the prisoner did …
Medical Care Still Deficient in Texas Prisons by Gary Hunter Deficient medical care at the unit level has Texas prisons incubating a new, more virulent strain of HIV. Dr. William Obrien is one of the most noted doctors on staff with the University of Texas Medical Branch. (UTMB) Over a …
Medical Monitoring Suit Settled for $675,000 by Oregon State Prisoners' Class Action Victory A class action lawsuit by Oregon prisoners involved in radiation experiments from 1963 to 1973 and still living as of December 31, 1997, who were not treated under Oregon's Medical Monitoring Statute (MMS) was settled for $675,000 …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Oregon Radiation Suit Settled for $1.5 Million by On April 24, 2001, a class action lawsuit by Oregon prisoners who participated in radiation experiments from 1963 to 1973 was settled for $1,517,000 in damages, attorneys' fees, costs and expenses. Sixty_seven prisoners at the Oregon State Penitentiary participated in experiments in …
Texas and Florida Prisoners Used in Medical Experiments by Julia Lutsky When the AIDS epidemic struck in the mid eighties and pharmaceutical companies wished to test new and promising drugs, what better place than in the nation's prison systems? AIDS has no known cure and test subjects in the prison …
Washington Radiation Suit Settled for $2.4 Million by Hans Sherrer By Hans Sherrer On March 14, 2000, a classaction lawsuit by Washington State prisoners who participated in radiation experiments from 1963 to 1971 was settled for $2.4 million. Sixty-four prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla were involved …
Irradiation Limitation Remains Unsettled by James Quigley By James Quigley The U.S. court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that factual issues, as to when a former prisoner was, or should have been, aware of his injuries from radiation experiments, precluded summary judgment on statute of limitation grounds. The …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Stanford University Tests Drugs on Imprisoned Juveniles by 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 …
Arizona Can't Seize All Prison Labor Back Wages by The Arizona court of appeals held that the state of Arizona can only seize thirty percent of a successful prisoner litigants back wages award. In 1983 and 1984 Richard Ford, an Arizona state prisoner, worked for Cutter Industries, a private company …
Tainted Plasma Traced to Arkansas Prison: Bill Clinton's Blood Trails by St Clair, Jeffrey by Jeffrey St. Clair The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a hefty contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates (HMA). The company got $3 million …
Cheaper Than Lab Rats: Can Prisoners Glow in the Dark? by Hans Sherrer We get outraged and indignant when we read or hear of atrocities committed by Nazi doctors in the name of medical science. [1] Yet, if what the Nazis did is what triggers our sense of outrage, then …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest by Fifty former Pennsylvania state prisoners protested outside the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on a cold December morning in 1998 to draw attention to the pain and suffering they say resulted from medical experiments performed on them in Holmesburg prison "We are the experimentation …
No Private Rights Under International Treaties by Afederal district court in Washington state held that state prisoners do not have an implied right of action for alleged "crimes against humanity," as violations of international law. The court further held that neither the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights (ICCPR), …
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