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United States: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people
Thousands of drug tests used by a major US diagnostic company in California prisons last year are suspected to have generated false positive results, an enormous error that has jeopardized the parole requests of some incarcerated people.
Source: the guardian (09/04/2025)