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It's a slippery slope.

If it was for-profit, countries like China would be pulping political prisoners for it.

Actually maybe not just China, I am sure some states in the US would make it mandatory for prisoners to donate to pay for their own prison sentences and maybe judges would take a cut too, increasing their willingness to find people guilty (judges are already allowed to own stock in privately run prisons).




At least in the US, look on the bright side- the odds of anyone needing your marrow are low, so there would be no sense in a systematic harvesting of marrow prison-wide every month. Inmates already work in labor gangs. So, if you are a prisoner and you get selected, strike a deal and get out of labor gangs for a month (because you just earned as much as if you had been in a labor gang). It'd be a good thing to get picked!


Maybe. Bone marrow donation is debilitating and really painful. I suspect not everybody would want to duck out on labor gang for it.


Painful? At least in Europe this is done under general anesthetic and after the procedure you shouldn't feel more than light pains.


This won't make those scenarios any more likely. Its perfectly legal to sell organs already, as long as they aren't _your_ organs, but rather organs someone else donated.


If that was the case, wouldn't prisons already force inmates to sell their plasma/sperm? I'm pretty sure that would get struck down in a court.


I'm, pretty sure that inmate sperm would be in pretty low demand :P




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