Upjohn and Parke-Davis contribute funds to build a state-of-the-art laboratory inside a prison.
Date: 1964
The State Prison of Southern Michigan, which is comprised of 57 acres and 4,100 incarcerated people, is the world's largest walled prison at the time.
Parke-Davis has already been testing at the facility for 30 years when they decide to construct a laboratory inside. The Michigan Board of Corrections justifies it as an "extension of prison work."