Inmates were a valuable, controlled population for pharmaceutical research, but were subjected to horrendous tests.
Drugs used to be tested on prisoners. Now they're tested on poor peopleUp until the 1970s, around 90 per cent of pharmaceutical drugs in the U.S were tested on prisoners to determine their safety before going to market. Watch Bodies for Rent on CBC Gem.Up until the 1970s, around 90 per cent of pharmaceutical drugs in the U.S were tested on prisoners to determine their safety before going to market.
However, Elliott said, it led to notorious scandals in the '60s and '70s. "Probably the most famous prison scandal is at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia," he said. "Those studies did the most unimaginably horrible things that you can think of to prisoners there.
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