And also to be clear, “vanish” from people who died in state custody, post-autopsy—not from people who are currently prisoners. And “vanish” to the same medical training uses as non-prisoners’ donated organs.
The (very reasonable) question being whether it’s appropriate for the warden rather than the family to authorize the donation, when family is in the picture.
The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting” trope that’s alarmingly a live issue in other carceral systems to this day [0], but that’s not what the article’s actual allegations describe.
The (very reasonable) question being whether it’s appropriate for the warden rather than the family to authorize the donation, when family is in the picture.
The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting” trope that’s alarmingly a live issue in other carceral systems to this day [0], but that’s not what the article’s actual allegations describe.
[0] e.g. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-hum...