Massachusetts Bill Offers to Cut Your Prison Time if You Donate Organs

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Massachusetts bill HD.3822 sets up a program allowing prisoners to cut down their sentence if they donate organs.

Section 170. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall establish a Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program within the Department of Correction and a Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Committee.

“He’s a father of three children and is in stage 4 of kidney failure,” González said, adding, “I love my friend and I’m praying through this legislation that we can extend the chances of life for him and any other person in a similar life-or-death situation.” González, a Springfield Democrat, noted that a number of comorbidities put people of color at risk for organ failure, pointing to

 

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This.......is a really sort of limited thing....I mean even for kidney donations, there are issues here.

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