Daily Poll: Should Prisoners Receive Organ Transplants?
Daily Poll: Should Prisoners Receive Organ Transplants? Friday November 25, 2005 As the prison population in America grows in numbers and increases in age, questions and debates about the allocation of medical resources to prisoners will grow in urgency. One issue which arises every so often is whether convicted felons, especially those who are awaiting capital punishment, should receive the same level of medical care as others in society – including scarce donor organs for the purpose of transplantation. Daily Poll: Should prisoners receive organ transplants? • No, none of them – not even if they are in for short sentences. • Yes, but not those on death row. •
