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| Fmr. Gov. Barbour denies pardon for Scott sisters |
| By sctonline.net - CHRIS ALLEN BAKER |
| Published: 01/18/2012 |
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JACKSON, MS — In the midst of state and national attention regarding last week’s release of pardons and clemency orders by the state’s former leader, two women from Scott County will remain on suspended sentences after being freed this time last year. Gladys, 37, and Jaime, 39, Scott, formerly of Scott County, were on a much-debated list of inmates receiving pardons or clemency, but the sisters were not among those listed for full pardons. The two women remain on the list with the “indefinite suspensions of sentence” status along with “robbery with a deadly weapon” as their crime by their names on the list. Amid rallies and other public events calling for their release from prison, now former Gov. Haley Barbour released the sisters on January 7, 2011. At the time, Barbour cited medical costs to the state as the reason for the releases because Jamie Scott suffers from kidney failure. Her dialysis was reportedly costing Mississippi about $200,000 a year, Barbour said. He released Gladys Scott on the condition that she donate a kidney to her sister within one year. The two women now live in Pensacola, Fla., with their mother and have not yet had the surgery as doctors have reportedly said the women need to lose weight before the surgery can be performed. The suspension can be reversed if conditions are not met. The sisters were arrested and charged in Scott County in 1993 with leading two men into an ambush where the men were robbed by three teens who hit them with a shotgun and took their wallets. The Scott sisters were given life sentences for the robbery. The women had served 16 years at the time of their release and would not have been eligible for parole until 2014. The Scott sisters’ case was just one of more than the 200 current or former inmates who received full pardons or clemency from Gov. Barbour just a day before he left office on January 10. Read More. |
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