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Prisoner volunteers, such as these at the U.S. Penitentiary in Seagonville, Texas, were used to test drugs against malaria in the 1940s. The reorganization of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1930 placed the supervision and provision of medical and psychiatric care for federal prisoners in the hands of the Public Health Service. Until then medical care was provided by local physicians.
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