PRESS RELEASETHE COMMITTEE TO FREE THE SCOTT SISTERSCONTACT: Mrs. Evelyn Rasco P.O. Box 7100Pensacola, Florida 32534E-mail:rqueenbee2222@yahoo.com Website: http://www.freethescottsisters.blogspot.comCase Summary: http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/search/label/Case%20Summary Legal Transcripts: http://www.scribd.com/Scott%20Sisters4/2010MISSISSIPPI INJUSTICE: A DOUBLE-LIFE SENTENCE FOR $11.00!Scott County, MS ---- In a trial fraught with legal malpractice, lack of evidence and witnesscoercion, Mississippi Judge Marcus Gordon sentenced sisters Gladys and Jamie Scott todouble-life each in an armed robbery. No matter the veracity of testimony; the lack of physical evidence and the absence of any previous criminal activity of the accused; in aquestionable crime, where no one was murdered or harmed and the amount alleged to have been taken as a whopping $11.00, one has to ask if this is Mississippi, the state in theUnited States of America ? And, how does a court abdicate the national principles of justiceand fair judicial process ?On December 24, 1993, the Scott County Sheriff’s Department arrested the Scott sisters forarmed robbery even though three persons confessed to committing the crime. TheMississippi sheriff used coercion, threats, and harassment to compel these individuals to become state’s evidence against the Scott sisters. His motive ? A long-standing vendettaagainst the Father of the sisters. Later a local teen, without benefit of counsel would testify that he was pressured to sign a written statement that he did not read and was prepared by the sheriff. No weapon was ever recovered in this case.During the course of the short trial only one witness was called and the sisters at thedirection of questionable legal advice, never testified or spoke for themselves during thecourse of their trial.Jamie, now 38 and Gladys, 34 are now entering their 16th year of incarceration. Jamie haslost function of both kidneys and is gravely ill, being provided inadequate medicaltreatment may very well see her sentence as a death sentence unless the Mississippi PrisonCommission relents in its rigid negligent medical care decisions for her.Recently, JamieScott was diagnosed by an outside physician as being at Stage 5 (end stage) of this illness,the next stage being death. Should Jamie Scott die in prison for an alleged robbery of $11.00 almost 16 years ago? A national campaign has been undertaken by their elderly Mother, Mrs. Evelyn Rasco, togain justice for her daughters and their family. Nationwide support for Jamie and Gladys is building increasingly louder and active.

PRESS RELEASEMISSISSIPPI SCOTT SISTERSNancy Lockhart, the young woman who has acted as the spokesperson of the Free the ScottSisters Campaign, and the Mother of Jamie and Gladys Scott are available for live andtelephone interviews. They have been featured guests on the Warren Ballentine Show ( XMRadio The Power); Our Common Ground with Janice Graham ( USTalkNetwork); TheMark Thompson Show ( Sirius Radio The Left Side); The Rip Daniels Show, WJZDMississippi; and their comments are featured in many newspapers across the country andthroughout the blogosphere.In June, 2009, Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD of the EditorialBoard of BlackCommentator.com wrote about the wrongfully conviction of Jamie andGladys Scott in a featured editorial, titled, “Represent Our Resistance”(http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-lenore-daniels-says-to-represent-our_19.html) and Mother Jones magazine's investigative reporter, James Ridgeway, did anexhaustive piece entitled, "Cruel and Unusual Health Care -- How Mississippi PrisonerJamie Scott's Life Sentence Could Turn Into a Death Sentence”(http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/jamie-scott-gladys-scott-haley-barbour- wexford-health)

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