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Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature-length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist, Kelly Duda, released in 2005.Through interviews and the presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleged that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV.
After 8 years of research [2] and 5 years of filming, [3] Duda released Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal in 2005, a feature-length documentary, which alleges that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV.
The Health Management Associates Scandal refers to the sale of tainted blood from HMA to Canadian blood banks. In 1993, Justice Horace Krever led a Royal Commission (public inquiry) which uncovered the Arkansas prison blood scheme, as he reported in 1997. The primary purpose of the report was to work on ways of improving the Canadian blood ...
Finney, 437 U.S. 678 (1978), is a landmark Supreme Court case against the Arkansas Department of Correction. The litigation lasted almost a decade, from 1969 through 1978. It was the first successful lawsuit filed by an inmate against a correctional institution. The case also clarified the Arkansas prison system's unacceptable punitive measures.
June 26, 2017 at 10:11 PM June 26 (Reuters) - An inmate who had been on the loose for more than three decades after escaping from an Arkansas prison was recaptured after authorities received a tip ...
Timeline of Arkansas Prison History by Arkansas Department of Corrections, accessed June 25, 2016. Brubaker Archived 2007-02-13 at the Wayback Machine at the Prison Film Project, accessed September 13, 2006. Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal movie, includes historical information on Thomas Murton and the Cummins Prison Plasma Program.
William VanWhy says he was feeling emotionally overwhelmed when he checked himself into the mental health unit at Northwest Medical Center in Arkansas last year. Four days later, he was still in ...
A convicted rapist who authorities say used a jet ski during an escape from an Arkansas prison last year was arrested Tuesday in West Virginia, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Samuel Paul Hartman ...