AUGUST 16, 2007 GENERAL » TOP STORIES
‘A lot of politics'
Besides his current role as the archivist of Clinton's papers, Roberts, a former member of Governor Clinton's staff, also served on the Arkansas Board of Correction during some of the most controversial years of the state-run plasma program. Clinton appointed him to the board in 1986.
It was an era when almost everything about the prisons was contentious, if not dangerous. Problems with the prisons' plasma program were almost totally eclipsed by other serious problems — including suspected murders, rapes, bribery, embezzlement, and substandard medical care. Clinton and his aides were also battling to end an entrenched system of bonuses for high-ranking prison employees.
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