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Dr. Austin Stough of Oklahoma corners the prison experimentation market.

Date: 1965-1970

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Through the mid-to-late 1960's, Dr. Stough oversees 130 investigational experiments for 37 pharmaceutical companies, including Bristol Myers, Merck, and Upjohn. He profits immensely from selling incarcerated people's blood plasma for wide-scale drug tests in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alabama.