From a bill proposed in the Massachusetts legislature in January.
The Commissioner of the Department of Correction shall establish a bone marrow and organ donation program and a bone marrow and organ donation committee. The program shall allow eligible incarcerated individuals to gain not less than a sixty-day and not more than a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day reduction in the length of their sentence on the condition that the incarcerated individual has donated bone marrow or organ(s). The bone marrow and organ donation committee shall be responsible for establishing standards of eligibility for incarcerated individuals to participate and the amount of bone marrow and organ(s) donated to commute one’s sentence. Annual reports including actual amounts of bone marrow and organ(s) donated, and the estimated life-saving associated with said donations, are to be filed with the executive and legislative branches of the Commonwealth.