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The Scott Sisters: Two Life Sentences for 11 Dollars? By Anthony Papa

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Scott Sisters: Two Life Sentences for 11 Dollars? By Anthony Papa February 25, 2009 Talk about injustice. How do you wind up in prison serving two life terms for a robbery that netted 11 dollars? That question has haunted first time offenders Gladys and Jamie Scott for the past 15 years. On December 24, 1993, Scott County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi arrested the sisters for an armed robbery they vehemently deny participation in. In 1994 they were convicted after being implicated in the crime by three young Black men who confessed to the robbery in exchange of a plea bargain that gave them 10 months. The sisters were not offered a plea and went to trial. Time has passed slowly for these sisters as they watched from behind bars their five children grow into adults and mourned the lost of their father...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).