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Throughout history, prisoners have been frequent participants in scientific, medical and social human subject research. Some of the research involving prisoners has been exploitative and cruel. Many of the modern protections for human subjects evolved in response to the abuses in prisoner research.[citation needed] Research involving prisoners is still conducted today[citation needed], but prisoners are now one of the most highly protected groups of human subjects[where?][1]
- ^ "OHRP Guidance on the Involvement of Prisoners in Research", https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/prisoner.htm Archived 2010-11-15 at the Wayback Machine