Justice Denied for the Scott Sisters

Jamie and Gladys Scott are being detained in a Mississippi Prison for a crime they did not commit. They were charged and convicted 16 years ago for a robbery that yielded $11 and no one was hurt. They are serving two life sentences each.Three men confessed to the crime and received lighter sentences. The facts of the case are on Christmas Eve in 1993 Jamie and Gladys Scott left a mini-mart near their home in Scott County, Mississippi. Their car broke down. They hitched a ride from two young men, one of whom they knew. Later that evening the two men were robbed at gunpoint by three teenagers in another car. The robbers took an estimated $11 from the two young men. No one was hurt. Police accused the Scott sisters of setting the victims up. At the time of the crime neither Gladys or Jamie had a criminal record. They were 19 and 21. Jamie suffers from End Stage Renal Failure and without a kidney transplant she will die in a Mississippi Prison. The Prison in Mississippi will not allow her sister to donate her a kidney. She receives dialysis and contiunes to fight infections constantly because of the unsanitary equipment/conditions at the prison. Gladys and Jamie’s older brother is presently serving in Iraq for the US Army, while Americans have wrongfully placed his sisters in prison on double life terms. No one was murdered, injured or taken to the hospital.The facts and case transcripts on this case can be found at their site: freethescottsisters.blogspot.com