By: Tara Twietmeyer | ABC 15, Phoenix
PHOENIX - Convicted criminals in Tent City are stepping up to possibly save your life.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday celebrated a new program which gives inmates the opportunity to sign up for organ donation. The I.DO! program was started in 2007, at a time when organ banks were in great need of more volunteers for the state’s organ transplant donation network.
“It’s something I figured three years ago was important, so we continued and we reached a goal of 10,000,” Arpaio says. “Now, I’m going for 20,000.”
The sheriff also says he admires his inmates for not only being brave, but also self sacrificing.
“Donating our body parts is not an easy decision to make for most people,” he says. “A very positive outcome to the success of this inmate program is the number of minorities who signed up for I.DO!"
According to published reports by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, transplants can be made more successful if the organs matched are between members of the same ethnic or racial backgrounds. Photo Credit: Scripps Media, Inc.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday celebrated a new program which gives inmates the opportunity to sign up for organ donation. The I.DO! program was started in 2007, at a time when organ banks were in great need of more volunteers for the state’s organ transplant donation network.
“It’s something I figured three years ago was important, so we continued and we reached a goal of 10,000,” Arpaio says. “Now, I’m going for 20,000.”
The sheriff also says he admires his inmates for not only being brave, but also self sacrificing.
“Donating our body parts is not an easy decision to make for most people,” he says. “A very positive outcome to the success of this inmate program is the number of minorities who signed up for I.DO!"
According to published reports by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, transplants can be made more successful if the organs matched are between members of the same ethnic or racial backgrounds. Photo Credit: Scripps Media, Inc.
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