Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China must be taken from a living donor (kidneys must be transplanted within 24–48 hours; livers within 12 hours, and hearts within 8 hours). Kirk C. Allison, Associate Director of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, wrote that the "short time frame of an on-demand system [as in China] requires a large pool of donors pre-typed for blood group and HLA matching," which is consistent with reports of Falun Gong prisoners having blood and tissue tested in custody. He wrote that China's short organ wait times could not be assured on a “random death” basis,
Blood in the Water (book) public before. Thompson argues that the Attica uprising and the state's response represented shifting American approaches to incarceration and policy, the reverberations of which continue to influence America's prison system. Film rights to the book have been optioned by TriStar Pictures. Since its publication in 2016, "Blood in the Water" has been profiled by media outlets across the U.S., Europe, and Canada, and has received much critical praise. Quite unusually, the book was featured and reviewed in three separate sections of the "New York Times" with one of the reviews calling it a "gripping...remarkable...a superb work of history,", another heralding