Health Solutions Group
Is using prisoners as test subjects ever ethical or lawful? Why or why not?
Is it ever right to use prisoners as test subjects in an experiment that:
a) gives them the freedom to choose to participate and to discontinue at any time;
b) gives them compensation of some sort;
c) exposes them to myriad health risks?
*Let’s say a group of researchers are attempting to find a cure for a disease, which entails infecting the inmates with the disease and testing out different solutions.
No.
Prisoners per se, by virtue of BEING prisoners, do not have the freedom to choose to participate or not to participate. They are a captive “audience.”
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Subjecting inmates as test subjects would transform the incarceration into a cruel and unusual punishment.
Test subjects need to be legitimate volunteers who are free (in every reasonable sense of the word) to volunteer to participate.
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