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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The events you're talking about occurred from the 1970's to 1983. They haven't done prison blood drives or accepted plasma from prisoners in over 40 years.

If you've spent more than 72 hours incarcerated, you are ineligible to donate blood products for 12 months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not OP, but I was unaware of that. That must have caused most all the AIDS that was caught through transfusions.