The Narcotic Farm The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts

Describes the role of America's Narcotic Farm in the drug rehabilitation and treatment of prisoners convicted of narcotics offenses over the course of its forty-year history, from 1935 to 1975, and the scandal over its drug-testing program and experiments using inmates as human guinea pigs that led to its shutdown, in a study that coincides with a PBS documentary.