After 16 years behind bars, Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys Scott are back at home with their loved ones. The Scott sisters were released on Friday from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour indefinitely suspended the Scott sisters’ life sentences on the condition that one will donate a kidney to the other. NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous says he thinks the Scott sisters deserve to be pardoned. Both were convicted of a 1993 armed robbery that reportedly netted them eleven dollars. The sisters will be at their mother’s home in Pensacola, Florida and under the supervision of Florida Department of Corrections officials.
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