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Washington state prisoners took part in radiatidn testing in past 25 years cluding one performed on terticles officials in the pad 23 years, acCordQg to docameats released ter ar qu cst from 4 member of a national panel stndylng health efdunng the war in N k Ge- or “These were all tats done to determme the effecu of radiation and people were Wormed what The pur ps e apparently was to develop svcty standards for nude ar worken and to hCrp find mu Asked if rbe tcsts were a ood idea. Lawrence replied “3fou’d have so ask the medical community Dr. Wayne Artwd of Spokane. local prtJident of Physicians for Wid Ruponubilitp, compared the experiments to &me conducted operarlox Illmag? Midlael Law. fecn of Word Nuclear Resew - In one went performed Washington State Penitentiary YO. lun tem d to have their testicles Xnyed They later underwent vasectomies to prevent them from Cosniviag damaged cfiiidren. Tesu Wave conducted on 67 pritanen at the Oregon Stace Rison between August 1963 and May In a 1958 test a woman in an unidenuficd city was given a dose of ‘Thisis the type of thin we saw this as a very wow matter. Attwood sade ts have ation is more dangerous because of agenr. such as radiation. it caa be been dose in the but it bu been condemned tbe medical wood said “It rings of that t pe of activity in my mind Imi, ,d view to the documcats, she w d given an rbortioa six days titer bcizawe the to mdiadan dosd n the hiversity ired human radiation studies is
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Tka condt of the wont Ebecation Actioa League said, "ie taring h , a twch of the barbaric this is anocher -pit of it" said Comer, lrba bad not heard of the