Warden Prepares List of Convicts For Serum Tests

Warden Prepares List of Convicts For Serum Tests

This article from the Canon City Daily Record announces that tests of a tuberculosis vaccine were to be performed at Colorado State Penitentiary. Inmates chosen to receive the test would be injected with the vaccine and then injected with tuberculosis germs over the course of several months. If the test subjects did not contract tuberculosis, they would be granted executive clemency and set free. National Jewish Hospital, the Denver-based organization responsible for developing the vaccine, remains an authority on tuberculosis research to this day.

Cañon City Daily Record

March 23, 1934

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