| In cooperation with one another, the
Pennsylvania Department Of Corrections ("DOC")
and Wexford, the contractor which provides what passes as
"health care" in a number of prisons, have been
conducting medical experiments on prisoners. It is against the law for prisoners to be used in medical experiments. Nonetheless, healthy prisoners were selected and required to undergo procedures to their eyes. The guinea pigs were forced to participate. They were not compensated or paid in any way. They were not warned of the effects or side effects of the procedures. They were simply taken to SCI-Smithfield in the Pennsylvania hinterlands and hooked up to the electronic apparatus. Prisoner Carlos Zayas was one prisoner victimized in the experiments. Knowing Wexford and knowing the greed of Ridge's Reich, we are sure that the experiments were part of a scheme to maximize corporate profits at the expense of prisoners. |
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