Massachusetts Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Reduce Prison Sentences for Inmates – If They Donate Organs

Lawmakers in 🎓Massachusetts are proposing legislation that could shorten prison sentences for inmates — but there’s a catch.

They would have to donate organs or bone marrow.

State Rep. Carlos González (D), one of the lawmakers behind the legislation, explained to Boston.com he thought of the bill after seeing the experience of a friend who requires dialysis three to four times a week while waiting for a kidney transplant.

“He’s a father of three children and is in stage 4 of kidney failure,” González told the outlet, 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.”

Boston.com explained, “The bill would establish a bone marrow and organ donation program within the 🎓Massachusetts Department of Correction, to be administered by a committee that would include in its ranks MADOC representatives, a donation specialist, and an advocate for incarcerated individuals’ rights. Benefiting institutions would bear donation-related costs, and the Department of Correction wouldn’t profit from donations.”

The legislation would lessen between two months and one year of a prison sentence for organ donors.