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During World War II, experimentation rises in prisons.

Date: 1939-1945

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To offset the rise of influenza, malaria, and dysentery among troops, the U.S. government increases its medical-pharmaceutical industry, and prisons became a testing ground. Incarcerated people are solicited for human trial testings of remedies for diseases.