I attended the press conference at the Masonic Temple after the release of the Scott sisters on Friday, December 7, 2011. The sisters are strong, optimistic and ready to face the challenges that lie ahead of them. They want to be advocates for other women in prison and fully exonerate themselves from all charges. They were not pardoned, they sentences were suspended with stipulations:
1. They have to leave the State of Mississippi within 24 hours of their release and they are not allowed to return.
2. Gladys Scott must donate one of her kidneys to Jamie Scott
3. The Suspension can be reversed if its conditions are not met
Attorney Chokwe Lumumba, NAACP State President Derrick Johnson, NAACP CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, MS Conference NAACP, Malcolm X Grassroots Organization, Attorney Jaribu Hill, Free the Scott Sisters Committee, MIRA, and many others worked diligently to get the Scott Sisters released.
But most of all the Scott Sisters' release is a testament to the strength and power of a mother's love, their mother Mrs. Evelyn Rasco never stopped believing in her daughters' innocence and with devoted persistence worked tirelessly for her daughters' release. All the while raising Jamie's three children in Pensacola, Florida. Jamie and Gladys Scott are moving to Pensacola, Florida to live with their mother.
For more information about the Scott sisters click on the link below:
http://www.victimsofthestate.org/MS/Scott.htm
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