This Is Just Wrong: RI Inamate Gets Liver transplant

From the Providence Journal: An inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions received a liver transplant at a Boston hospital last week, making him the first Rhode Island prisoner to undergo an organ transplant, a corrections spokeswoman said Monday.
The inmate is Jose Pacheco, 27, who is serving a 6 1/2-year sentence for robbery.
Liver transplant operation costs can top $1 million. The state will be required, by court precedent, to pay 40 percent of the expenses, with the remaining 60 percent covered by Medicare.
Pacheco was sentenced in June 2011 after pleading no contest to second-degree robbery, possession of stolen car parts and conspiracy. Since 2006, he has also been sentenced multiple times on assorted drug-possession charges, including possession of and intent to deliver cocaine.
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/08/ri-prison-inmat-1.html
I'm sorry, but when you enter prison, you forfeit rights and one of those rights should be transplants, especially liver transplants because there are a lot of people on the waiting list and this thug took a liver that could have helped someone who was not in prison.
The only exception would be is if the liver would go to waste.  In this case, Rhode Island should have released the thug from prison and then he probably would not have received the liver and he would not have survived much longer.
Now, this thug will be released in a few years and will be free to commit more crimes with a taxpayer paid transplanted liver.
If there was a choice of giving the liver to thug criminal or someone who is not a criminal, I would give the liver to the person who has not been in trouble.
Just another reason to dislike governments and some Supreme Court rulings.