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James Ridgeway's interview on the release of the Scott sisters

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Gladys and Jamie Scott were sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for an armed robbery which netted $11, while their three male accomplices received lesser sentences and have since been released. Civil rights groups have been lobbying Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to release them, and yesterday he did. Hear the interview the case with Jim Ridgeway of Mother Jones Magazine. He also writes the Solitary Watch blog about prisons. http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/12/30/mississippi-sister-robbery

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 31, 2010 (boomark / email).