Dystopia Today: Massachusetts lawmakers introduced a bill that would take up to 1 year off from an inmate's sentence if they donate bone marrow or an organ.
One former inmate says: "It's extremely offensive ... the nerve, the gall, like who could think of something like that."
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When I read Larry Niven's 'The Jigsaw Man' back in the mid-80s, I thought its dystopian vision of a society where demand for organs is so high, prisoners are effectively executed for parking tickets was absurdly OTT. Apparently not...