The prison, built in 1896 is a part of the City of Philadelphia Prison System that was used until 1995. In the span of time from 1951 to 1974, the prison is a place of various experimental medicine that invite contention.
Website of the Baltimore Sun explains, the prisoners in the jail were volunteering for trials of shampoo, deodorant, foot powder, and even a tranquilizer and dioxins.
At first, there was the skin disease outbreak spread legs in prison so that a dermatologist Dr. Albert m. Kligman from the University of Pennsylvania are invited to check out. At that time it is like getting a prize inside of 1,200 people target test tried it.
20 years later, Allen m. Hornblum at that time 23 year old recent graduate and Graduate of Villanova University, decided to teach reading to the prisoners Detention Center in Philadelphia. He found astounding fact related circumstances convicts skin health.
He then fought reveal sacrilege and abuses that occurred at the prison. The story is then poured in the book ' Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison; A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science '.
As it turns out, rash-rash on the skin of the prisoners not because of a fight in a jail, but by chemical substances in fragrances are examined to them in Exchange for a sum of money in cash.
Various trials for 20 years that involves the toothpaste, deodorant, skin creams, detergents, liquid diet, eye drops, foot powder and hair dye made by biopsy. Later, terungkaplah test using a sedative, dioxins are poisons and radioactive isotopes used in chemical weapons.
However, Dr. Albert m. Kligman became very wealthy and famous as a qualified dermatologist in the city of Philadelphia. The doctor was admitted to not violate the rules and procedures in conducting all test tried it. Although the prisoners it was him who took it.
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