Photos That Show a Side of History That You Didn’t Know

Prisoners Used as Test Subjects

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While this looks like a fun sport of some sort it is actually a prisoner testing safety nets in 1958. Back in the ’50s, capital punishment was utilized everywhere in America and prisons used their captives as test subjects while they were awaiting the death penalty or some other fatal ending in prison.

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