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50 Years After City Halted Prison Medical Testing, Families Seek Reparations

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Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black, for decades. Now, survivors of the program and their descendants want reparations. Thousands of people at Holmesburg Prison were exposed to painful skin tests, anesthesia-free surgery, […]

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Publish date : 2024-10-24 15:27:23

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