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 been excoriated in a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court as an “evil place run by some evil men.”
HMA not only made money from providing medical care to prisoners, but it also started a profitable side venture: blood mining. The company paid prisoners $7 a pint to have their blood drawn [about half what urban skid road blood suckers pay for winos’ blood]. HMA then sold the blood on the international plasma market for $50 a pint, with half of that going to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
I remember this being a pretty big topic on FR years ago. If it is rotten and corrupt, the Clinton’s are probably involved.
***a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court as an “evil place run by some evil men.”***
How true. I remember people who have been in the Arkansas prisons. One said he would commit suicide rather than go in again. Another did commit suicide.
I am reminded of those unmarked graves found there back in 1968 and the stir it caused.
My late friend got some of that tainted blood. She had to have heart suegery while living in Arkansas...she ended up with Hep C...or B...not sure