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Clinton's Arkansas were getting $100 for tainted blood in the 1980s; They paid Prisoners $5
The Guardian ^ | April 27 2024 | Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Robin McKie

Posted on 05/16/2024 1:28:17 AM PDT by RandFan

On a former slave owner’s cotton plantation in Arkansas, the sprawling Cummins state farm prison covers 6,700 hectares (16,500 acres) and can house nearly 1,900 inmates.

It is a working farm with vegetable crops, a dairy and livestock, but for more than two decades its most lucrative product was the blood plasma harvested from the convicts.

Prisoners were paid between $5 and $7 each time, and the plasma was sold for about $100 into the drug industry supply chain from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Cummins was one in a network of prisons across America that provided plasma and its extracts in products shipped around the world, including to Britain. Other paid donors were recruited from deprived neighbourhoods of the US, including drug addicts and people with sexual diseases.

Cara McGoogan, author of The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood, said: “The plasma was so profitable it was called liquid gold. From the prisons in America to the UK, mistakes were made all along the chain that created this deadly product.”

Shocking accounts have been uncovered of the “bleeders” who donated at Cummins. It was claimed there were no sinks in the bleeding area, no clinical scrubs or gloves. The bleeding rooms were dirty with blood on the floor. It is claimed the screening procedures were regularly flouted.

At another prison in Louisiana, there were even more appalling claims. One witness claimed seeing people “shooting intravenous drugs” while waiting to donate, while others allegedly had sex in the bathroom before “going on the table to bleed”.

Clotting agents extracted from the plasma were used to treat people in Britain who suffer from haemophilia, a medical condition in which the ability of the blood to clot is severely reduced.

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$100 from then and in today's money is about $400.

Make no mistake this was a lucrative enterprise which continued throughout the 1980s despite the government knowing about the risks in '83.

1 posted on 05/16/2024 1:28:17 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

It’s still a big business today. Plasma centers pay money for well... your plasma. A human body regenerates it way more quickly than blood cells. Very long story. Worked years in the blood industry, building machines to process blood. Human and others.


2 posted on 05/16/2024 1:36:55 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: RandFan

One pint and you begin to smell like boiled cabbage, urine, and farts? That’s just awful.


3 posted on 05/16/2024 1:56:20 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

“it was called”
“Shocking accounts have been uncovered”
“there were even more appalling claims”
“One witness claimed”
There are many “claims” in this article about things that happened 50 years ago. I think someone is trying to sell a book or movie or podcast, or just cause outrage. Did they ever find the bones of the indigenous Canadian children? nope


4 posted on 05/16/2024 3:17:25 AM PDT by brookwood (Anti-semitism is a predictable result of efforts to create "diversity, equity, and inclusion".)
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To: brookwood

Well the reparations the US paid to Japan and Canada were real enough. Amazing how most info has ben scrubbed from websites.


5 posted on 05/16/2024 4:55:30 AM PDT by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: RandFan
"What difference, at this point, does it make!"


6 posted on 05/16/2024 6:07:43 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: RandFan

Back when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Lots of people died because of that tainted criminal blood.


7 posted on 05/16/2024 6:41:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: RandFan

Tainted Blood, wasn’t that a song by Soft Cell?


8 posted on 05/16/2024 6:42:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Close. Tainted Love

No Love for Bill though

This scandal is cooking and the report will be out in a few weeks. It should be going into some more details I hope...


9 posted on 05/16/2024 6:45:07 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: sonova

plasma centers have been around a very long time, use to pay $30.00 for each donation. dont have any idea how mach is paid today?

people on welfare used to go for extra money, drugies too for a new fix.


10 posted on 05/16/2024 12:25:57 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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