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Letting Inmates Donate Organs for Time Off? Bad Idea

Por: The Daily Beast Nation February 16, 2023

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In January, two Democratic state representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs.The bill stated that the commissioner of the Department of Corrections should establish both a bone marrow and organ donation program within the department and a committee focused on bone marrow and organ donation that would... + full article



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