Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal and Factor VIII: Investigating Power, Profit, and Political Silence During the Clinton Governorship by Kevin Wikse
Blood Money in a State Suit The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, Factor VIII Contamination, and Political Silence During the Clinton Governorship Profit, Silence, and Leverage: Examining Whether Political Power Benefited—or Was Compromised—by the Arkansas Prison Blood Trade Investigative visual by Kevin Wikse exploring power, profit, and silence surrounding the Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal and contaminated Factor VIII blood products. There’s a smell to stories like this. Copper and bleach. Paper soaked in disinfectant. The kind of clean that only exists when something filthy came first. Arkansas. Prison walls. Blood plasma. The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal remains one of the most disturbing failures of prison oversight and blood safety in modern American history. In the 1970s and 1980s, the state ran inmates like a living mine. Veins were tapped instead of coal seams. The prisoners were sick — hepatitis at first, later HIV — and it didn’t matter. The plasma moved anyway. It always...