CDC Never Told Female Inmates Biopsies Were Never Done

From July to November 1996, a private laboratory billed CCWF $161,000 "for thousands of medical tests, including Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, AIDS Tests and Biopsies, even though the tests had never been used on the inmates. . Although the State of California closed the laboratory in 1997, a 2000 newspaper investigation found that there was (little evidence of any attempt by the California Department of Corrections to retest inmates or notify them that their test results were faked.)