Adrianne Jones-Alston, founder of the Jones Foundation, said reparations is one of the demands for survivors and their decendents of the Holmesburg Prison medical experiments from 1951 to 1974.
Jones Foundation founder Adrianne Jones-Alston, left, whose father was subjected to Holmesburg Prison medical experiments, and Penn professor Dorothy Roberts, after a panel discussion on the experiments and the call for the University of Pennsylvania to pay reparations to victims or their descendants.For 23 years, during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, scores of people incarcerated at Holmesburg Prison were subjected to experiments conducted by University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert M.
“The survivors were taken advantage of and were vulnerable, and Penn needs to acknowledge their pain and suffering,” Jones-Alston said.An official apology directly to the survivors of Kligman’s experiments and families. Like many of those at Holmesburg, he was unclear of the details of the test, just that he would make at least $1 a day, significantly more than the 25 cents that other prison jobs paid.After 1976, he never returned to jail, but he wasn’t the same. “It got so bad I went to three mental institutions.”
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