Poll: Should prison inmates be used in pharmaceutical trials?

[Lord Legion]

I find this funny...especially about the bits of "informed consent"
Anyone ever get those "vitamin" injections in the military? hahaha
The US gov does this all the time...HAS done this. LSD ring any bells?

 

[qeinar]

test drugs on death row inmates, should be good. Also no-on would conent to testing drugs without a reward for it so they could have minor reduction on their prison time for testing 'em.

 

[iron codpiece]

You all seem to have this magical view of prisoners as people who typically behave and follow directions. After spending a hellish month in jail -acquitted BTW- can tell you no. Absolutely no. Those scumbags would mess up the test or lie to get in to it.

 

[Plurralbles]

Um... No. NEver. I wouldn't even give them the option.

it's sick and inmates could be pressured into it even if it wasn't required.

Torturing people is not a civil punishment and that is what a lot of these drugs woudl do.

 

[qeinar]

No fucking way.

First off you can be put in jail for nonviolent crimes.

Second off those drugs could kill people or permanently cripple them.

Third designating a population as lesser than and performing experiments on them is way too Nazi-like.

i think this would be a option for people that's in fo more than 10 years. : p if you stole a candy bar from the shop you shouldn't be given drug testing as a punishment. also it should only be upon consent from the prisoner, and well prisoners testing drugs of own free will should be rewarded.

 

[The Night Shade]

If they don't turn into a Bane like supervillian then i'm ok with it

 

[babinro]

Yes, under their proper consent and with additional financial benefits accordingly. Although I see no reason why this should be restricted to only inmates and not anyone who is willing.

 

[chuckman1]

If they want to why not?

 

[EGtodd09]

They should but only the ones with sentences over 5 years I think. Everyone else is voluntary.

 

[Chaza]

Only the drug-dealers.

I love the irony in that

Ot. Only if the inmates are willing to do the tests otherwise then Nooo

 

[DudeistBelieve]

What? No.

Wait. What? Absolutely not!

That you even posited the question about whether they should "even have a choice in the matter" appalls me. Prisons and the justice system itself are enough of an inherent problem in and of themselves without turning them into lab-rat factories as well. That's just disgusting.

Fuck pharmaceuticals anyway. A terrible multi-billion dollar business comprised solely of convincing us we have a problem, and marketing hope in a bottle to cure our newly imagined afflictions.

My thought exactly.

Are any of you freaking high? Where is your humanity? It's wrong.

 

[Danceofmasks]

You do realise if there are adverse effects, once those prisoners' sentences are up there's a higher probability of criminals going "you fucked up my life, I might as well get my own back."

It's much "safer" to test drug on suburban housewives.

 

[PoliceBox63]

I think your poll should read "Should prison inmates be forcibly used in pharmaceutical trials?"

I said no. They're still human.

 

[Le_Cable]

Your poll is too simplistic to encompass all points of view on the issue.

 

[Silencer217]

only if it's voluntary. studies need to be done n prison guys are in shape

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I have tested many medicines over the years.
And it is absolutely not dangerous.

People only get to try it when it's been proven safe many times over, by simulations, animal testing etc. etc.

And prisoners are terrible for testing.
You need to be willing to commit to an extremely strict schedule that dictates your every minute of time for many days, sometimes weeks. When you eat and sleep etc. how much you eat and drink, everything is set ahead of time and you are basically drilled just as if in an Army bootcamp...

If they ain't willing to commit the side effects will not be known correctly.
Because honesty about how you are feeling is the deciding factor that gets "diarrhea" or "nausia" on that all important list of possible side effects.

In short; very bad idea. And legally impossible of course.

 

[BanthaFodder]

I put yes, but it depends on the inmate. if a guy is in there for something really minor, then obviously no. but I could honestly not care less what "adverse side effects" experimental drugs might have on a rapist or murderer or pedofile.