Oh I see no problems that could arise from this. I sincerely hope that those who proposed this have only good intentions but alas I fear they heard about China and decided they wanted to get in on the action.<p>We have an entire population of people who have demonstrated they're not good at making choices. They're now confined with a greatly curtailed set of rights. They're in a high stress, often violent environment and largely dehumanized. Some of these environments border on torturous.<p>Now considering all that, when you dangle this carrot of getting out sooner do you thing they're capable of making a rational decision? I'm sure a few are and those would be the ones who decline doing this.
> in touch with the bill sponsors and [are] cognizant of the significant problem of racial inequity in our health system that has left BIPOC communities disproportionately impacted by organ and marrow shortages.<p>On the other hand said communities are overrepresented in the prison system, so you could spin this on its head and see it as organ harvesting targeted at minority communities<p>Which oddly enough seems like a more likely side effect than addressing related quote. Also consider that rich (likely white) people are given priority for organ donation<p>Looks like the more things change, the more they remain the same