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Large-scale hepatitis experiment conducted at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet.

Date: 1961

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Led by Dr. Joseph Boggs, Director of Laboratories at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the study conducted "clinical tests" to conquer infectious hepatitis. Over the course of this five-year study, 137-200 incarcerated men participated in it.