Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates

 

At California's San Quentin Prison, Dr. Leo Stanley believed crime could be cured through surgery. Over the course of decades, inmates became subjects in a series of bizarre and disturbing experiments involving forced sterilizations, gland transplants, and testicles taken from executed prisoners. Stanley claimed he was advancing science. Others saw something far more sinister: a prison doctor using human beings as laboratory specimens.