An interesting idea

In Massachusetts, a bill has been submitted that would allow prison inmates to get up to a 12 month reduction in their sentence if they donate an organ.   Somehow it seems like a good idea to me, though you'd have your hands full making sure that the prisoner was in fact in a condition to survive the surgery without passing on jailhouse infections (jailhouse rape is endemic, sad to say, with accompanying STDs and more) to the recipient.

Especially compelling is the reality that if a prisoner donates a kidney, he simultaneously becomes a more vulnerable person--we have two kidneys in case one becomes damaged, but if you've only got one, brawling and crime becomes a less attractive option because....one is in a condition where one could quickly become the person on dialysis.

I don't expect that it would make a night and day difference in organ donations, since you've got to do a lot of screening and matching, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.