It seemed the perfect cash cow for a poor state like Arkansas: a blood collection program run from inside the prison system. Inmates were paid peanuts to give blood twice a week - blood that was then sold on the global market. For three decades, including the twelve years that Bill Clinton served as governor, that’s how it worked. The money poured in. The state pocketed millions. There was but one minor problem: disease. Many of the state’s inmates were infected with viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS. As a result, thousands of unwitting victims, in countries worldwide, received transfusions and medications made from this contaminated source and died as a result.