nytimes.com — An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped 3 decades ago after revelations of abuse when prisoners were exposed to radioactive, hallucinogenic and carcinogenic chemicals.
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unitethenationsAug 12, 2006
Disgusting. Are the medical ethicists on hallucinogens, or are they just saving those for the inmates?
dagonwebAug 13, 2006
There are impressive arguments and studies that no less than 10% of people in US prisons are there innocent of the crimes they are charged with. Sentences are quite high; at least two to three times as long as those in my own country, the netherlands. Imagine you being hauled off innocently or on something like possession of cannabis, being put there for 10 years and having to do hard labour. I would NEVER travel to places like Saudi Arabia, the US, Singapore because I am terrified of these subhuman prison systems and 19th century laws.
alphabetAug 13, 2006
LMAO, a story was on digg last month about how a bunch of people nearly died from medical testing and some guy said "I bet those pharmaceutical companies will try to lobby for the government to open up medical testing on prisoners again."
fhwqhgadsAug 14, 2006
"Must be convenient they are mostly blacks ?"You're saying I'm racist now? Where the f**k did you get that idea?A guy who kills and/or rapes a kid, brutally murders someone - like chopping up their body or something equally sickening - people like that should be tortured and killed. Thats the type of slime you do these tests on. Much better than having our tax dollars being wasted to keep these sick f**ks alive. Put them to some kind of use at least.How can anyone disagree with that? The above described "people" are not human.
hipstershaunAug 15, 2006
Sure there is no other problem. If you ignore that there is just as much drug use behind prison walls as in the ghetto. You think you can get a controlled test with accurate results from people previously ravaged by drugs or supplementing the testing with a little of their own choosing. (many, not all) I don't want to take a prescription that was approved based on skewed results from a jacked test group.It's a bad idea, if not for the prisoners safety, then for my own!