This arrangement allowed HMA to collect blood from the prisoners at the Cummins Unit in Grady, Arkansas.
HMA paid the prisoners seven dollars and sold it at 50 $ at a profit,[2] though some of it was proven to be infected with HIV and hepatitis C. In 1982, Henderson contracted with a Canadian company named Continental Pharma Cryosan, Limited, which turned the blood into clotting factor and sold it to the Red Cross.
[1]: 185 Dunn was a Pine Bluff banker close friend of Bill Clinton and managed to keep HMA in business.
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 system to avoid similar problems in the future.