"National Inmate Donor Registry"

For whatever reason---be it apathy or oversight, a complete lack of programs and national protocol for the willing prisoner to donate living vital organs and tissues to those under their own sentence of death, seems to be the accepted "norm". In rare case it may be possible to do so for an immediate family member but the bureaucratic impediments are so sunstantial, that people have literally died while awaiting necessary approval.

It is totally ironic that an entire segment of the nation's polulation is excluded from the roles of the willing. What is justice if it isn't the act of making something good come from something bad? Doesn't the government have an absolute duty to protect its citizenry?

Isn't the rationale for imprisonment derived from the responsibility in repayment of societal debt, rehabilitation, restitution, and punishement for transgression? If this is indeed the case, then why with a population which two million men and women incarcerated in this country, are dying people in the "free world" awaiting organs and tissues, deprived willing donors?

These states take life, labor, income, and time from the inprisoned, ask us to "rehabilitate" ourselves, yet deny us the opportunity to make the ultimate restitution---literally, the gift of life, the only act that can trascend all others.

Center stage among a number of other controversial subjects, www.deathrowinmate.org provides a voice for the marginalised while catering to the demands of those who weep societal change, building formidable alliances and promoting solidarity while in pursuit of the triumph in the human spirit.

If you are willing to unselfishly bridge the gap between life and death, for a perfect stranger who might otherwise die without your living transplant (or an organ upon your death), we encourage you to join hands and help us breathe life into this most-deserving effort.

If you feel that state and federal prisoners should be able (and permitted) to donate living vital organs and tissues, we urge you to "weigh in" and vote on our online poll. If you're an inmate and wish to become listed on the inmate donor regsitry, please drop is a kite and let us know.