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!
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 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).