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Houston Police Department Conducted Blood Draw Training on Prisoners
Loaded on July 15, 2010
by Greg Dober
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 44
In 2009, to expedite DWI arrests, the Houston Police Department sent seven officers to Lone Star College to be trained as certified phlebotomists. A phlebotomist is a qualified medical technician who draws a person’s blood. During the course of the officers’ clinical training, they practiced on prisoners in the psychiatric ...
Filed under:
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Blood,
Consent to Treatment,
Drug Testing,
Federal Statutory Law,
HIPAA.
Location:
Texas.
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