{"id":264744,"date":"2023-02-07T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264744"},"modified":"2023-02-09T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T06:26:18","slug":"prisoners-to-be-offered-reduced-sentences-of-up-to-a-year-if-they-donate-their-organs-or-bone-marrow-under-bold-proposal-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264744","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners to be offered reduced sentences of up to a year if they donate their organs or bone marrow under bold proposal in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Which is more important to them, their freedom or their organs?&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Massachusetts State Democrats proposed a bill that would see inmates offered reduced sentences of up to a year if they donate their organs and bone marrow<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Many say the bill raises ethical concerns for the more than 6,000 inmates in Massachusetts prisons who could risk their health for freedom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One of the bills&#8217; sponsors said it would restore their &#8216;bodily autonomy&#8217; and allow them to donate to family members<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ronny Reyes \u2013 Daily Mail Feb 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/democrats\/index.html\"><strong>Democrats<\/strong><\/a> have proposed a bill that would see inmates offered reduced sentences if they donate their organs and bone marrow.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, helmed by State Reps. Carlos Gonzalez and Judith Garcia, would create\u00a0The Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program within the state&#8217;s Department of Correction that would see prisoners lose between 60 days to a year off their sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, however, has raised ethical concerns for the more than 6,000 men and women incarcerated in the Bay State.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Cunnigham-Cook, of investigative news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/mass-prisoners-could-choose-between-freedom-and-their-organs\/\"><strong>The Lever<\/strong><\/a>, wrote: &#8216;In essence, the bill would ask prisoners which is more important to them: their freedom, or their organs and bone marrow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation calls on the state to form a five-member\u00a0&#8216;Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Committee,&#8217; with only one seat reserved for a prisoner&#8217;s rights advocate.<\/p>\n<p>Other members would include representatives from the Department of Correction, a donation specialist and a member of an organization advocating for bone marrow and organ donations.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales told <a href=\"https:\/\/whyn.iheart.com\/featured\/whyn-local-news\/content\/2023-01-30-gonzales-bill-would-allow-prisoners-to-make-organ-donations\/\"><strong>WHYN <\/strong><\/a>that the bill could broaden the pool of donors in the state to save lives, adding that he was fueled to introduce the legislation after visiting a friend who suffers from a failing kidney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve put more effort into this bill after visiting a friend, who I consider a brother, in the hospital who is required to have dialysis 3 to 4 times a week while he awaits a kidney transplant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s a father of three children, and he&#8217;s in his stage 4 of kidney failure. Unless he can obtain a kidney at 40 years old, life expectancy is about 10.4 years for men and 9.1 years for women. I love my friend and I&#8217;m praying through this legislation we can extend the chances of life,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said on Twitter that the program would &#8216;restore bodily autonomy to incarcerated folks by providing opportunities to donate organs and bone marrow,&#8217; noting that there is no current path for prisoners to donate even for family.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Gonzales and Garcia, the bill is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Shirley Arriaga, Bud Williams and Russell Holmes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11699209\/Prisoners-reduced-sentences-donate-organs-bone-marrow-Massachusetts-bill.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to turn prisons into profitable enterprises? By offering inmates reduced prison time in exhange for their organs, which can then be lucratively traded for transplants by the prison authorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264783,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744\/revisions\/264783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}