A panel of current and former incarcerated individuals, family members, a legal expert, a student filmmaker and a ...

June 11, 2025—The next time your doctor suggests that you take a genetic test before prescribing a drug, you can thank a group of Black inmates imprisoned outside Chicago 75 years ago. The story ...

Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ethical issues that the carceral studies raised. Stateville inmates were ...

Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of that story ...