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The Scott Sisters? ?Debt to Society? and the New Jim Crow

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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The Scott Sisters? ?Debt to Society? and the New Jim Crow January 7, 2011 News from a Nation in Lockdown by James Ridgeway http://solitarywatch.com/2011/01/07/the-scott-sisters-debt-to-society-and-the-new-jim-crow/ Jamie and Gladys Scott walked out of prison today into the free world. The sisters were convicted, on dubious grounds, of an $11 armed robbery, and sentenced to life in prison. Both sisters lost 17 years of their lives behind bars before Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspended the remainder of their draconian sentences; Jamie also forfeited her health, and is now suffering from end-stage renal disease. Yet the sisters? ?debt to society? is still far from paid. First and foremost, the conditions of their release stipulate that Gladys Scott must give Jamie Scott a kidney...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 08, 2011 (boomark / email).

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