50 years after Philadelphia halted prison medical testing, families seek reparations

Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black

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50 years after Philadelphia halted prison medical testing, families seek reparations

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The family shop saying goodbye after 64 years

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