At first I thought it was a good idea because I mistakingly had the idea in my head that a kidney donor's life expectancy is shortened... so it'd simply just be a matter of them exchanging days.
After a bit of research, turns out that's generally not the case... there's no life expectancy change.... so I don't really know anymore.
They'd basically be paying the cost of pain and surgery and recovery (during a period of time that's already contained in their prison sentence) for those 180 days...
I dunno... if a prison's main objective is to reform, maybe it could be argued that those that have reached a point where they're willing to help someone else to such an extent (even if they know what they're getting out of it from the get-go) are a bit further down the path of enlightenment than other prisoners, and deserve an early release?
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Originally Posted by notabook
This isn't China we're talking about. This is America. You can't sell your organs here and effectively that's what they would be doing. "Trading" your organs for time off... it's bullshit. Furthermore prisoners sentenced for hard crimes (rape/murder/etc.) shouldn't be allowed to "buy" any time off period.
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Maybe I can understand why society doesn't want to legalize organ-selling on a grand scale... but, ethically, they are your organs... if it's to be said that a woman has a right to receive an abortion because it's her body, then why can't someone sell an organ when it's their organ?