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Tainted Plasma Traced to Arkansas Prison: Bill Clinton's Blood Trails
Loaded on May 15, 1999
by St Clair, Jeffrey
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1999, page 1
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Prison Industries,
HIV/AIDS,
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Blood.
Location:
Arkansas.
The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a hefty contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates (HMA). The company got $3 million a year to run medical services for the state's awful prison system, which had ...
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