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$75,000 Award Upheld in Use of Carcinogense Blood Detection Agency

The First Circuit has ruled that the forcible application of benzidine,
known as a primary carcinogen, to prisoner's bodies was a constitutional
violation and sufficient to warrant damages.

On November 2 and 3, 1974, Douglas S. Gomes and several other prisoners at
the Adult Correctional Institute (ACI) in Rhode Island ...

 

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