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Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]
These prisoners were used as medical test subjects by German agents. [7] [8] During the second World War, Nazi human experimentation occurred in Germany with particular bias towards euthanasia. At the war's conclusion, 23 Nazi doctors and scientists were tried for the murder of concentration camp inmates who were used as research subjects.
The same reasons that make the general prison population less suitable to be organ donors—poor health and increased chance of infectious disease—also apply to death row inmates. [13] However, due to the preplanned nature of executions and lengthy time periods before they are carried out death row inmates have a greater potential to be ...
Thousands of people — many of them Black — at Holmesburg Prison were exposed to painful skin tests, anesthesia-free surgery, […]
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a report released Thursday.
Although as of May 13, 2020, Black prisoners make up 1 ⁄ 3 of the prison population in Missouri, they have had 58% of the positive tests for the state's prison population. [ 78 ] 43 prison agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, have refused to provide any demographic information (besides ages) of prisoners affected by COVID-19.
At the prison’s monthly urine testing in April 2023, at least a half-dozen inmates decided to ride the lightning rather than be written up for drug use. But they weren’t happy about it ...