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Prisoners donating organs to get time off raises thorny ethical questions

  • Written by Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Prisoners donating organs to get time off raises thorny ethical questionsPrisoners at a yard at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb.AP Photo/Nati Harnik

In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill 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...

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