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We may have found a new mission for the prison camp at Guantanamo, Cuba.

An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse. The New York Times piece may actually be a sly leak of a secret Bush Administration program in the War on Terror.

Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials

The proposed change includes provisions intended to prevent problems that plagued earlier programs. Nevertheless, it has dredged up a painful history of medical mistreatment and incited debate among prison rights advocates and researchers about whether prisoners can truly make uncoerced decisions, given the environment they live in.

Until the early 1970's, about 90 percent of all pharmaceutical products were tested on prison inmates, federal officials say.

Prisoners, drug companies and the Bush Administration working together to make us safer and healthier.

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