California Penal Code CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions and Prohibitions

Section 3501.
The Legislature affirms the fundamental right of competent adults to make decisions about their participation in behavioral research.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1553, Sec. 1.5.)
Section 3502.
(a) Biomedical research shall not be conducted on any prisoner in this state.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), records-based biomedical research using existing information, without prospective interaction with human...
Section 3502.5.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 3502, any physician who provides medical care to prisoners may provide a patient who is a prisoner with a drug or treatment available...
Section 3504.
Any physical or mental injury of a prisoner resulting from the participation in behavioral research, irrespective of causation of such injury, shall be treated promptly...
Section 3505.
Behavioral research shall be limited to studies of the possible causes, effects and processes of incarceration and studies of prisons as institutional structures or of...
Section 3508.
Behavioral modification techniques shall be used only if such techniques are medically and socially acceptable means by which to modify behavior and if such techniques...
Section 3509.5.
Nothing in this title is intended to diminish the authority of any official or agency to adopt and enforce rules pertaining to prisoners, so long...

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