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College of Physicians Formally Apologizes to Holmesburg Prison Experiment Survivors, Families

Holmesburg Prison seen from the air, October 2007.
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Holmesburg Prison seen from the air, October 2007.

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia issued a formal apology Wednesday to people who were incarcerated at the former Holmesburg Prison in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

At the time, people there became the subjects of medical scientific experimentations that were later deemed morally and ethically wrong. WHYY’s Nicole Leonard reports.

Read the full story here.

(Original air-date: 1/13/23)

Nicole Leonard is a health and science reporter for WHYY News. She joined the newsroom in 2022 after covering health care for Connecticut Public Radio. Before that, she was the health reporter for the Press of Atlantic City.