Philadelphia apologizes for history of prison experiments on Black men, hopes to rectify medical mistrust within community
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 8, 2022
CNN
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Philadelphia has apologized for experiments conducted on mostly Black men incarcerated in the city’s now-inactive Holmesburg Prison, which exposed subjects to herpes, skin blistering chemicals, radioactive isotopes, and poisonous chemicals used during the Vietnam war.
In the city’s statement . . .
