Title
Medical Procedure, Illinois State Prison, Stateville
Subject
Illinois State Penitentiary (Stateville, Ill.)
Prisoners
Medical screening
Prison wardens
Ragen, Joseph E.
Description
Warden Joseph E. Ragen observes a medical procedure on a prisoner. This image may depict one of the U.S. Army malaria experiments on inmates at Stateville during the Second World War, where physicians deliberately infected prisoner volunteers to observe the disease's effects.
Creator
Look Magazine
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Date
1948-01-06
Format
jpg
Language
en
Identifier
400037
Illinois State Prison, Stateville
Original Format
commercial print
b&w
1
Physical Dimensions
26 x 21 cm