Prison director calls for an end to medical research on people incarcerated in federal prisons.
Date: 1976
After years of public and political debate, the Bureau of Prisons Director Norman A. Carlson officially announces on March 1, 1976 that all medical experiments on incarcerated people in federal prisons will be terminated.
After other known testing sites that have been in operation for decades have been shut down, the last one that is supposedly still running is at the Federal Addictive Drug Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky. For almost 40 years, an experimental study of addictive drugs and other possibly addictive drugs has been carried out there, involving more than 5,000 incarcerated people as test subjects.