Articles by St Clair, Jeffrey

Buddha of the Blues

Loaded on June 16, 2015 by St Clair, Jeffrey

Filed under: Editorials, Prison Reform, Tapes/Music. Location: United States of America.

Buddha of the Blues

by Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and drug trafficking and had been ...

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

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Prison Industries, HIV/AIDS, Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Blood. Location: Arkansas.

by Jeffrey St. Clair

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 ...