Robbery

The state of Mississippi has a long, long track record of dispensing judicial inequities when it comes to cases involving Minorities, but especially, African Americans. On January 7, 2011 after serving 16 years and two weeks of a life sentence ins…

PEARL, Miss. — Sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott left Prison on Friday for the first time in 16 years, yelling, "We’re free!" and "God bless y’all!" as they pulled away in a silver SUV. That freedom, though, comes with an unusual co…

Two Mississippi sisters were released from Prison Friday after serving 16 years, under an agreement in which the younger sister donate a kidney to her elder sibling suffering from organ failure. Jamie and Gladys Scott, who became symbols of the h…

Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 1:16 PM Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour suspended the double life sentences of sisters, stipulating that Gladys Scott, 36, give one of her kidneys to Jamie Scott, 38. The sisters were freed Friday. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg…

PEARL, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour freed two sisters Friday from a state Prison where they were serving life sentences for an $11 armed Robbery on condition that one donate a kidney to the other. The sisters, Gladys…

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PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Two sisters whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other were released from a Mississippi Prison on Friday after serving 16 years for an armed Robbery. Jamie and Gladys Scott …