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MS: Scott Sisters Who Have Served 16 Years for an $11 Robbery FINALLY Freed

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 30, 2010 Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) announced late Wednesday that he will grant an early release from prison to two sisters serving unusually long sentences for armed robbery. Gladys and Jamie Scott have each served 16 years of a life sentence. Their case had become a cause celebre among civil rights groups, including the NAACP, which mounted a national campaign to free the women. The Scotts were convicted in 1994 for an armed robbery in which they led two men into an ambush. The men were robbed of $11, and their supporters contend that the Scotts, who are black, received extraordinary punishment for the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).