Panel suggests using inmates in drug study

[bigbrother05]

go to story here, sorry you'll have to copy and paste
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html?ex=1313121600&en=8796300b5181346d&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss

[Boojatta]

1. From the article.

“The current regulations are entirely outdated and restrictive, and prisoners are being arbitrarily excluded from research that can help them,” said Ernest D. Prentice, a University of Nebraska genetics professor and the chairman of a Health and Human Services Department committee that requested the study.

Ernest D. Prentice sounds very concerned about the well-being of prisoners.

The discussion comes as the biomedical industry is facing a shortage of testing subjects.

What a coincidence!

In the last two years, several pain medications, including Vioxx and Bextra, have been pulled off the market because early testing did not include large enough numbers of patients to catch dangerous problems.

What could be more helpful for prisoners than dangerous problems?

“It strikes me as pretty ridiculous to start talking about prisoners getting access to cutting-edge research and medications when they can’t even get penicillin and high-blood-pressure pills,” said Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News, an independent monthly review.

[bigbrother05]

2. Yes, they seemed

concerned about prisoners rights, not to be able to participate.

[Eric J in MN]

3. They're determined to destroy every advance in human liberty

...made since the 1960s.

The receommnedation is to use prisonser as guinea piga again, as long as the treatement has the "potential" to benefit prisoners. That could be said about any treatment.