Nineteen people in the U.S. will die today while waiting for an organ transplant.

Prisoners ask to help save lives through organ donation, but are unnecessarily denied by prison administration.

G.A.V.E. is an organization set up to make a difference in the organ shortage in the U.S. with the help of willing and healthy volunteer prisoners.  Prisoners frequently ask to help through living kidney donations or multiple donations after execution to anyone in need.  However, they are just as frequently denied unnecessarily by prison administration and transplant authorities. 

There are typically only between 10,000-15,000 donations given annually which provide organs for a small fraction of the greater than 112,000 Americans on waiting lists.  Yet inmates make up nearly 2,000,000 potential donors.  If just 1% chose to participate and were allowed to do so, this would nearly double the number of current organ donations in the U.S.  While this won’t solve the problem, it will have a dramatic impact.

This site explores why donations from willing prisoners are not occurring now and advocates for a change to allow healthy and willing inmates the opportunity to save lives.

If the interested visitor finds the content and ideas of this site intriguing, meritorious, or worthy of debate, G.A.V.E. welcomes your input.  Of course, G.A.V.E. is looking for your support, but the quickest way to kindle a fire is to rub two opposing opinions together.

Learn about the issues involved by browsing through this site.  If you'd prefer a more comprehensive and in depth look at why those opposed say prisoner organ donation should not occur and how those arguments are easily defeated, download our e-Book (Coming this Thanksgiving).

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Oregon State Penitentiary
Attn: Christian Longo (SID 14509855)
2605 State Street
Salem, OR 97310-0505