Two Massachusetts lawmakers introduced a bill earlier this year that would have allowed incarcerated people to shave up to a year off of their sentences if they donated an organ or bone marrow. After an outcry from criminal justice advocacy groups, the lawmakers said they'd amend the language in the bill to eliminate sentence reduction.
But simply the introduction of the bill got the Something Offbeat team thinking about the ethics of such a setup and about the prison healthcare system at large. This week, host Mike Rogers talks to Cary Aspinwall of the Marshall Project, a journalism outlet that focuses on criminal justice.
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