Medical Procedures Performed In Prisons For The Insane

Report: Medical Experiments Conducted on U.S.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/medical-slideshow-code

There were some very noted researchers who were involved in studies that involved infecting mental patients or prisoners, including Jonas Salk, who’s famous for inventing the polio vaccine.

'Insane': America's 3 Largest Psychiatric Facilities Are Jails

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/25/605666107/insane-americas-3-largest-psychiatric-facilities-are-jails

In her new book Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, Roth investigates the widespread incarceration of the …

Mental Health Treatment While Incarcerated - NAMI

https://www.nami.org/Advocacy/Policy-Priorities/Improving-Health/Mental-Health-Treatment-While-Incarcerated

Too often, jails and prisons serve as providers of mental health care — care that is often inadequate to meet the needs of a person with a mental illness. Despite constitutional …

The History of Inhumane Mental Health Treatments

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/

10 of the Most Evil Medical Experiments Conducted in …

https://www.alternet.org/2014/08/10-most-evil-medical-experiments-conducted-history

Criminalization of Mental Illness – Past, Present, Prison

https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/hip/mentally-ill-and-the-penal-system/

Execution of mentally ill offenders. Doctors, psychiatrists, and prisons’ reports and assessments, like the psychiatric reports in James Holmes’ case, have been constructed …

For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and …

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2019/05/31/prison-inmates-health-care-comes-slowly-and-unpredictably

Before getting approval for a significant medical procedure, like a colonoscopy or surgery, an inmate must visit a specialist off the grounds of the jail or …

Beyond Estelle: Medical Rights for Incarcerated Patients

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2019/nov/4/beyond-estelle-medical-rights-incarcerated-patients/

Several alarming cases of forced medical procedures performed on prisoners, in the form of surgery or body cavity searches, have been reported. In Sanchez v. Pereira …

Forced Medication of Prison Inmates - Journal of Ethics

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/forced-medication-prison-inmates/2008-02

The treating physician sought to medicate Harper over his objections, following prison policy which permitted involuntary treatment if the prisoner suffered from a mental …

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the …

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

Approximately 20,000 sterilizations took place in state institutions, comprising one-third of the total number performed in the 32 states where such action was legal. …