This is basically the kind of thing that leads to Niven’s “Organ Bank Problem” scenario; when people become more valuable in parts than together and you can disassemble criminals, eventually every crime receives the death penalty. Run a red light or make a mistake on your taxes, you die in the organ banks.
The irony here being that Dahmer wasn’t a Federal prisoner, either, he was a state prisoner.
Incorrect. At present prisoners have MORE right to medical care than the non-incarcerated population. Prisoners get medical care regardless of ability to pay, the free population who can’t pay don’t get care outside of whatever is needed to prevent imminent death in the ER, assuming they get to the ER in time, after which they’re on their own for whatever follow-up care is medically necessary. Which is why this country has diabetics dying for lack of access to insulin.
As long as they have the option to withdraw I can live with it.
I believe they should be considered organ donors unless they decide to opt out.
I believe everyone should be considered organ donors unless they decide to opt out.
I believe any society which has gotten to the point where opt-out being what requires paperwork makes sense (on account of a very large majority of people being donors) is better than one where opt-in is what requires activation, but I also consider that penalties should be crime-specific and that the US already removes an inordinate amount of rights from any prisoners, whether we limit “prisoners” to convicted criminals or not. When it comes to organ donation, the imprisoned population of any country should have the same right to choose and equivalent protocols to those of the general population; by “equivalent” I mean that if signing (in or out) requires going to a specific place the prisoner cannot go to on account of being a prisoner, the forms should be brought to them.
How about making it so that people who are registered organ donors get placed on ‘waiting lists’ above people who are not registered donors?
Just no. We are not China.
Imagine waking up from surgery and the doctor says “You have Charles Manson’s heart!”.
I think people seem to understand the OP, but to be clear, the term “opt-out” means you are in by default, and if you don’t want to be in, you explicitly opt out. So the question is, “Would you approve of organ donation for all Federal prisoners being opt-out while serving their sentences?”
Pun intended and not intended ---- I could live with it.