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Organ donation has the potential to greatly improve quality of life as well as prevent death in patients with end-stage organ failure. There is an endemic shortage of organ donors within the United States, resulting in an immediate and persistent need for additional, suitable organ donors. Death row inmates are a possible source of additional ...
“’Organs for reduced prison time’ is one of the most horrific policy ideas I have ever heard of,” one Boston resident said on Twitter. Inmates could donate organs to get out of prison ...
Bill HD.3822, which would establish a “Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program,” was introduced late last month by state Reps. Carlos González and Judith García, both Democrats.
A bill now making its way through the state legislature would make a violation of that law a Class C felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. “If organs are being removed for donation for ...
Between 2003 and 2009, for instance, only 130 people volunteered to be organ donors. [23] In 2010, the Chinese Red Cross launched a nationwide initiative to attract voluntary organ donors, but only 37 people signed up as of 2011. [24] Due to low levels of voluntary organ donation, most organs used in transplants are sourced from prisoners.
[citation needed] The demand for donated organs is extremely high due to the fact that a large number of people die while waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. [5] [3] As of 2016, there were fewer registered organ donors than people in need of an organ or tissue transplant. [5]
The two Democratic state legislators who sponsored the bill say it would help expand the pool of organ donation. Nearly every 10 minutes, another person is added to the transplant list.
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.