Movie Trailer for Factor 8:The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal

A new movie is out which documents the role of the Arkansas prison system’s blood harvesting program and the role that it played in the spread of AIDS and HCV to non prisoners, especially hemophiliacs. Prisoners sold their blood to harvesting companies through the early 1990s, long after it was known many were infected with varius blood borne illnesses. Then governor Bill Clinton and his aide Vince Foster successfully fought all attempts to shut the program down. Of course, Arkansas was not the only state to have such programs, Arizona, Rhode Island and many others did as well. They were just the last to end it. As a result, tens of thousands of people have needlessly died, and are still dying. To my knowledge, the only publications that have reported on this topic very extensively are Prison Legal News and Counterpunch. One of the articles on the topic by Jeff St. Clair is at: http://prisonlegalnews.org/257_displayArticle.aspx

To check out the film go to: http://www.factor8movie.com/factor8.htm