Genentech was the first biotechnology company to scale up protein manufacturing successfully from the small quantities used for research to the much larger quantities needed for clinical trials and marketing. With state-of-the-art facilities in the United States and Europe, the company continues to be a world leader in the manufacture of human biotherapeutics, processing approximately three million liters of product annually for clinical research and the marketplace through a variety of fermentation and proprietary purification processes.
In 1998, Genentech completed its second manufacturing facility in Vacaville, CA. The largest multi-product biotechnology manufacturing facility in the world, the Vacaville plant occupies 420,000 square feet on 100 acres. It became operational in 1999 and received FDA licensure in April 2000. Also in April 2000, Genentech further expanded its manufacturing capacity with the purchase of a cell culture manufacturing facility in PorriƱo, Spain. When renovated and licensed, the facility will supplement Genentech's existing bulk cell culture production capacity.
Research is the wellspring of potential products, and Genentech's research organization is among the world's finest. Genentech scientists are the most prolific in the biotechnology industry, publishing at a rate of 250 to 300 scientific papers a year, and are among the top one percent of researchers in the world in terms of total citations. In addition, Genentech's scientists have secured more than 4,300 patents worldwide and have another 5,000 pending.
"(Federal law makers criticized the Vacaville
prison for not allowing most trans-gendered prisoners access to
hormonal therapy. "We believe that trans-gendered prisoners should be
allowed to live their lifestyle within the prison and that includes
access to hormone treatments and psychosocial support groups.)"
There was just a small news announcement on the radio in early July after a short heat wave, three inmates of Vacaville Medical Facility had died in non-air conditioned cells. Two of those prisoners, the announcement said, may have died as a result of medical treatment. No media inquiries were made, no major news stories developed because of these deaths.
But what was the medical treatment that may have caused their deaths? The Medical Facility indicates they were mind control or behavior modification treatments. A deeper probe into the death of these two inmates unravels a mind-boggling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time.
Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons. But, it is not just in the penal society that mind control measures have been used. Minority children were subjected to experimentation at abandoned Nike Missile Sites, veterans who fought for American freedom were also subjected to the programs. Funding and experimentations of mind control have been part of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Central Intelligence Agency through the Phoenix Program, the Stanford Research Institute, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and the National Science Foundation.
Government experiments also were conducted in the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco at the height of the Hippie reign. In 1974, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights studying the subject of "Individual rights and the Federal role in behavior modification." That condemnation, however, did not halt mind control experiments, they just received more circuitous funding.
Many of the case histories concerning individuals of whom the mind control experiments were used, show a strange concept in the minds of those seeking guinea pigs. Those subject to the mind control experiments would be given indefinite sentences, his freedom was dependent upon how well the experiment went. One individual, for example, was arrested for joyriding, given a two-year sentence and held for mind control experiments. He was held for 18 years.
Here are just a few experiments used in the mind control program:
One drug induces vomiting and was administered to prisoners who didn't get up on time or caught swearing or lying, or even not greeting their guards formally. The treatment brings about uncontrolled vomiting that lasts from 15 minutes to an hour, accompanied by a temporary cardio vascular effect involving changes in the blood pressure with ruptures, strokes and heart failure.
For a carton of cigarettes and some chocolate candy.
An inmate is stripped naked and strapped down on a board. His wrists and ankles are cuffed to the board and his head is rigidly held in place by a strap around his neck and a helmet on his head. He is left in a darkened cell, unable to remove his body wastes. When a meal is delivered, one wrist is unlocked so he could feel around in the dark for his food and attempt to pour liquid down his throat without being able to lift his head.
Another experimental drug creates a muscle relaxant. Within 30 to 40 seconds paralysis begins to invade the small muscles of the toes, fingers, and eyes and then the inter costal muscles and diaphragm. The heart slows to about 60 beats per minute. This condition, together with respiratory arrests, sets in for as long as two to five minutes before the drug begins to wear off. The individual remains fully conscious and is gasping for breath. It is almost like drowning the experiment states.
Another deals with creating body rigidness, blurred vision, aching restlessness, severe muscular pain, trembling and fogged cognition ending in coma and death.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Army have admitted mind control experiments and deaths have occurred in large numbers.
In tracing the steps of government mind control experiments, the trail leads to legal and illegal usages, usage for covert intelligence operations, and experiments on innocent people who were unaware that they were being used as experimental monkeys.
Letters from Ad Hoc Committee for prison health care.
Warden
California Medical Facility at Vacaville
P.O. Box 2000
Vacaville, CA 95696
Dear Warden:
We are writing to you as representatives of the Ad Hoc
Committee for Prison Health Care Reform. This group is made up of
culturally diverse organizations and individuals who are dedicated to
improving the medical and mental health care conditions for people
who live behind bars. We are deeply concerned about the
health care needs of the trans-gendered prisoner population
housed at your facility.
It has been brought to our attention, that the medical as
well as the mental health care remains poor and/or nonexistent
at the California Medical Facility for the trans-gendered prisoner.
The TG prisoner should be housed in a special unit within the
correctional facility where they would be allowed to live
their lifestyle within the limits and rules of the facility.
Many are housed with other prisoners and are raped and
emotionally abused. TGs are not allowed to wear make-up or feminine clothing. Many
who have developed breasts are not allowed to wear bras.
They are strip-searched by male officers.
They are used as payment like chocolate and cigarettes by staff to get inmates to sign forms for their use in drug research.
EEG biofeedback into the California Prison System
Through the good offices on an anonymous donor, EEG biofeedback training is being introduced to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where it will be used under the supervision of the Chief Medical Officer, Larry Dizmang, MD.
Recently, several staff members of the facility received training in EEG biofeedback, so that the technique could be rapidly introduced at the facility. Dr. Dizmang's research has shown that about two-thirds of mental health referrals to the facility have a prior history of ADHD. It is also clear that many of the problems in prison are traceable to impulse control problems. Thirdly, it is clear that much of the prison population in general, and of medical referrals in particular, have drug addiction problems.
In the development of the hospice program at Vacaville. ... at Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (CTCF) We will provide training for medical staff at CTCF. NPHA visited the Federal Medical Center at Fort Worth Texas and is happy to report a working hospice program is supported enthusiastically by administration, medical personnel. NPHA staff were able to attend an inmate volunteer meeting and talk with inmates and staff alike. We discussed the "Impaired Inmate Assistance Program" with inmates.
These programs have been operational since 1992 at the Broward Correctional Institute for Women. Like the programs in the BOP, this program uses inmate volunteers successfully in science experiments.
NPHA was represented at the American Correctional Association (ACA) conference in July, 1996, by Nancy Craig, NPHA research assistant. Much interest and support for prison hospice was expressed by participants at the conference. Significant was a session on care for the terminally ill sponsored by the Salvation Army at which both American and Canadian medical officers described their programs of science and their enthusiasm of the use of convicts for experimental purposes.
in Nashville. A conference included three presentations about death and dying issues, two of which were about correctional programs.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons was strongly represented, as well as state hospices interested in starting or continuing a relationship with their local Departments of Correction.
They are not people according to the reports, just criminals who have become animals with no purpose.
In 1998, Genentech completed its second manufacturing facility in Vacaville, CA. The largest multi-product biotechnology manufacturing facility in the world, the Vacaville plant occupies 420,000 square feet on 100 acres. It became operational in 1999 and received FDA licensure in April 2000. Also in April 2000, Genentech further expanded its manufacturing capacity with the purchase of a cell culture manufacturing facility in PorriƱo, Spain. When renovated and licensed, the facility will supplement Genentech's existing bulk cell culture production capacity.
Research is the wellspring of potential products, and Genentech's research organization is among the world's finest. Genentech scientists are the most prolific in the biotechnology industry, publishing at a rate of 250 to 300 scientific papers a year, and are among the top one percent of researchers in the world in terms of total citations. In addition, Genentech's scientists have secured more than 4,300 patents worldwide and have another 5,000 pending.
"(Federal law makers criticized the Vacaville
prison for not allowing most trans-gendered prisoners access to
hormonal therapy. "We believe that trans-gendered prisoners should be
allowed to live their lifestyle within the prison and that includes
access to hormone treatments and psychosocial support groups.)"
There was just a small news announcement on the radio in early July after a short heat wave, three inmates of Vacaville Medical Facility had died in non-air conditioned cells. Two of those prisoners, the announcement said, may have died as a result of medical treatment. No media inquiries were made, no major news stories developed because of these deaths.
But what was the medical treatment that may have caused their deaths? The Medical Facility indicates they were mind control or behavior modification treatments. A deeper probe into the death of these two inmates unravels a mind-boggling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time.
Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons. But, it is not just in the penal society that mind control measures have been used. Minority children were subjected to experimentation at abandoned Nike Missile Sites, veterans who fought for American freedom were also subjected to the programs. Funding and experimentations of mind control have been part of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Central Intelligence Agency through the Phoenix Program, the Stanford Research Institute, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and the National Science Foundation.
Government experiments also were conducted in the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco at the height of the Hippie reign. In 1974, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights studying the subject of "Individual rights and the Federal role in behavior modification." That condemnation, however, did not halt mind control experiments, they just received more circuitous funding.
Many of the case histories concerning individuals of whom the mind control experiments were used, show a strange concept in the minds of those seeking guinea pigs. Those subject to the mind control experiments would be given indefinite sentences, his freedom was dependent upon how well the experiment went. One individual, for example, was arrested for joyriding, given a two-year sentence and held for mind control experiments. He was held for 18 years.
Here are just a few experiments used in the mind control program:
One drug induces vomiting and was administered to prisoners who didn't get up on time or caught swearing or lying, or even not greeting their guards formally. The treatment brings about uncontrolled vomiting that lasts from 15 minutes to an hour, accompanied by a temporary cardio vascular effect involving changes in the blood pressure with ruptures, strokes and heart failure.
For a carton of cigarettes and some chocolate candy.
An inmate is stripped naked and strapped down on a board. His wrists and ankles are cuffed to the board and his head is rigidly held in place by a strap around his neck and a helmet on his head. He is left in a darkened cell, unable to remove his body wastes. When a meal is delivered, one wrist is unlocked so he could feel around in the dark for his food and attempt to pour liquid down his throat without being able to lift his head.
Another experimental drug creates a muscle relaxant. Within 30 to 40 seconds paralysis begins to invade the small muscles of the toes, fingers, and eyes and then the inter costal muscles and diaphragm. The heart slows to about 60 beats per minute. This condition, together with respiratory arrests, sets in for as long as two to five minutes before the drug begins to wear off. The individual remains fully conscious and is gasping for breath. It is almost like drowning the experiment states.
Another deals with creating body rigidness, blurred vision, aching restlessness, severe muscular pain, trembling and fogged cognition ending in coma and death.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Army have admitted mind control experiments and deaths have occurred in large numbers.
In tracing the steps of government mind control experiments, the trail leads to legal and illegal usages, usage for covert intelligence operations, and experiments on innocent people who were unaware that they were being used as experimental monkeys.
Letters from Ad Hoc Committee for prison health care.
Warden
California Medical Facility at Vacaville
P.O. Box 2000
Vacaville, CA 95696
Dear Warden:
We are writing to you as representatives of the Ad Hoc
Committee for Prison Health Care Reform. This group is made up of
culturally diverse organizations and individuals who are dedicated to
improving the medical and mental health care conditions for people
who live behind bars. We are deeply concerned about the
health care needs of the trans-gendered prisoner population
housed at your facility.
It has been brought to our attention, that the medical as
well as the mental health care remains poor and/or nonexistent
at the California Medical Facility for the trans-gendered prisoner.
The TG prisoner should be housed in a special unit within the
correctional facility where they would be allowed to live
their lifestyle within the limits and rules of the facility.
Many are housed with other prisoners and are raped and
emotionally abused. TGs are not allowed to wear make-up or feminine clothing. Many
who have developed breasts are not allowed to wear bras.
They are strip-searched by male officers.
They are used as payment like chocolate and cigarettes by staff to get inmates to sign forms for their use in drug research.
EEG biofeedback into the California Prison System
Through the good offices on an anonymous donor, EEG biofeedback training is being introduced to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where it will be used under the supervision of the Chief Medical Officer, Larry Dizmang, MD.
Recently, several staff members of the facility received training in EEG biofeedback, so that the technique could be rapidly introduced at the facility. Dr. Dizmang's research has shown that about two-thirds of mental health referrals to the facility have a prior history of ADHD. It is also clear that many of the problems in prison are traceable to impulse control problems. Thirdly, it is clear that much of the prison population in general, and of medical referrals in particular, have drug addiction problems.
In the development of the hospice program at Vacaville. ... at Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (CTCF) We will provide training for medical staff at CTCF. NPHA visited the Federal Medical Center at Fort Worth Texas and is happy to report a working hospice program is supported enthusiastically by administration, medical personnel. NPHA staff were able to attend an inmate volunteer meeting and talk with inmates and staff alike. We discussed the "Impaired Inmate Assistance Program" with inmates.
These programs have been operational since 1992 at the Broward Correctional Institute for Women. Like the programs in the BOP, this program uses inmate volunteers successfully in science experiments.
NPHA was represented at the American Correctional Association (ACA) conference in July, 1996, by Nancy Craig, NPHA research assistant. Much interest and support for prison hospice was expressed by participants at the conference. Significant was a session on care for the terminally ill sponsored by the Salvation Army at which both American and Canadian medical officers described their programs of science and their enthusiasm of the use of convicts for experimental purposes.
in Nashville. A conference included three presentations about death and dying issues, two of which were about correctional programs.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons was strongly represented, as well as state hospices interested in starting or continuing a relationship with their local Departments of Correction.
They are not people according to the reports, just criminals who have become animals with no purpose.