title: Breaking into the prison: conducting a medical research project.
abstract: Three major tasks face the researcher in a medical experiment employing prisoners as experimental subjects. Understanding the nature of the subject, crossing the territorial boundary, and obtaining informed consent are prerequisites for the successful implementation of research in the prison and rely heavily on the personal integrity of the invesitgator.
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011329:Prisoners; D012107:Research Design; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D012919:Social Behavior; D014481:United States