Comments on: Jamie Scott’s son, 18, fights to free the Scott Sisters in Mississippi

By: charlie jones

charlie jones — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:32 +0000

will work with this group

By: Lorane Friend

Lorane Friend — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:54:19 +0000

To the family of Jamie and Glady’s Scott, my prayers are with each of you. I know the Scott sister. I was housed with them for 6 years. I was sentenced to life, but with faith and prayer the Lord delivered me from those same walls. I was there for 11 years. I called Jamie (Ginger Bread) and Glady’s (Shake-it-fast) I will not only pray, but give support for this cause in anyway that I can. I wrote Jamie about a month ago, other ladies there have been keeping me informed on Jamies medical condition. God bless, heal and deliver in every possible way for this family. They both are wonderful ladies.

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:42:20 +0000

I think this is an outrage. And I know that God is working this out for Gladys and Jamie. I pray that God would touch some attorneys heart, and allow him to get justice for these ladies. Because this is just wrong, wrong, and wrong on all levels. To the family, continue to believe and have faith that God is working it out, and they will get through this. To the people who did this to Gladys and Jamie, may God have mercy on your soul. Because you will be held in accoutable for the wrong you have done to these women.

By: Ohmahn eliazer

Ohmahn eliazer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:58:03 +0000

This is nothing more than a modern day Mississippi lynching there is a need for an international outcry for injustice such as this.How many criminals have been turned loose in that state for crimes against humanity for over 400 yrs.Every curse imaginable, I pray should descend upon the real criminal who made this unjust decision.

By: mg

mg — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:02:33 +0000

This seems so outrageous.

By: Sis. Marpessa

Sis. Marpessa — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:15:15 +0000

Jamie Scott of the Scott Sisters was able to call her mother on 9/7/09 and report that thanks to all of the calls that came into the prison, she was seen by a doctor and is receiving her medication.

She wanted to make certain that each and every person who responded to our urgent calls for assistance knew how much she appreciated the overwhelming response and remarked it was noted by the staff there when she was seen for medical treatment.

Thank you also from Mrs. Evelyn Rasco, who has felt a tremendous burden relieved by just being able to know that her daughter is receiving medical attention, though still in unjust captivity.

Mrs. Rasco’s website is at http://www.freethescottsisters.blogspot.com, please link to and follow it for updates!

By: Sis. Marpessa

Sis. Marpessa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:33:04 +0000

9/4/09 URGENT MEDICAL UPDATE!

Jamie Scott is a diabetic with high blood pressure and her
mother, Mrs. Rasco, was recently informed that she has not been receiving her medications. Jamie requires two insulin shots per day, regular sugar checks, as well as pills for her blood pressure. Mrs. Rasco is fearful for her daughter’s life!

Many of us have been calling the prison today to try and
reach someone to discuss this with and have been
getting the runaround.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! We must get Jamie seen by medical staff
ASAP to ascertain her medical condition. Here is her current location:

Jamie Scott #19197
CMCF2/A-Bldg.
B Zone, Bed 196
P.O. Box 88550
Pearl, MS 39288-8550

Please contact these officials and tell them to move
Jamie Scott to the Medical Bldg. so that she can
be evaluated by a doctor ASAP.

Margaret Bingham, Superintendent of Central Mississippi Corrections Facility
(601) 932-2880 (Corrected)
mbingham@mdoc.state.ms.us
FAX: (601) 664-0782 (Corrected)
P.O. Box 88550
Pearl, Mississippi 39208

Christopher Epps, Commissioner of Prisons for the State of Mississippi
601-359-5600
CEPPS@mdoc.state.ms.us
723 North President Street
Jackson, MS 39202

Emmitt Sparkman, Deputy Commissioner
(601) 359-5610
esparkman@mdoc.state.ms.us
Governor Haley Barbour

1-877-405-0733 or 601-359-3150

By: Karen Ketthavong

Karen Ketthavong — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:23:47 +0000

To the people of Mississippi slavery is over and never coming back so no matter how you abuse our people it will not work. We are good people God made us all and in the end you will see. And how can this judge not do what is right you have no bussiness holding a seat were you can not do your job. You should have guts enough to stand up for justice instead of being a good ol boy ever one deserve justice even you. JUST DO THE RIGHT THING AND LET THESE SISTERS GO.

By: Black Panther

Black Panther — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:33:02 +0000

Leake County Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon was also the same judge who filed a complaint against Attorney Chokwe Lumumba. I ask that you all file Mississippi Judicial complaints against Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon.

By: Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:30:10 +0000

Nancy Lockhart just responded with thanks to J.R. and the Bay View, and told me that Iskandar Langalibalele had arranged J.R.’s interview with Jamie Scott’s son Terence. One more thing Iskandar hadn’t had time to share with me before his untimely death, but which I’ll make a point of sharing in the piece I’m planning to write about Iskandar.

By: Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:43:46 +0000

I just posted this to Facebook, where Nancy Lockhart manages a Scott Sisters support group. She worked on this, for a long time, with Iskandar Langalibalele, who died recently, and without warning to most, in surgery. I’ve urged all those now mourning Iskandar to support the Scott Sisters in his memory.

By: Ameerah Pearman

Ameerah Pearman — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:53 +0000

This is a terrible travesty of justice, I just saw Mrs. Rasco’s blogspot at http://www.freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/ their family has already been through a whole lot and these women need to be at home with their families. One of the women who had been in prison with Jamie had killed her own children and gotten released after 10 years, yet Jamie remains in that prison. Somebody, please, help them get a lawyer.

By: evelyn rasco

evelyn rasco — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:05:31 +0000

thank you so much sis marpessa and my thanks to minister jr for trying to help my grils it is careing people like you that can bring real justice what has happen to my grils is inhuman and our justice department has fell my grils just as it have for some mine people that are wrong full convicted thank god for people that want to fight for justice there are some mine that dont get justice until someone fight for them our styem will not do it to let people out of prison they lose money and to make more money they lock up the innocent so keep fighting not for just my grils for ever wrongfull case you hear about our people are crying for justice thank you so much fronm evelyn rasco jamie and gladys scott god bless you all at the bayview for your suport we need you help

By: Sis. Marpessa

Sis. Marpessa — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:33:52 +0000

Thanks to Bro. JR and the SF Bay View for so consistently standing strong as the voice of the people! This case stands out among the most unique of all those i’ve been aware of in 25+ yrs of prisoner support work. Please share this interview/article with national media outlets and legal scholars to bring the maximum pressure to bear in returning these young mothers to their children, this family has been traumatized enough!

Below is a case summary and contact info which leads to much more information, including transcripts.

Case Summary

Jamie and Gladys Scott are blood sisters and have been wrongfully convicted of armed robbery. The sisters received double life terms each. No one was murdered or injured during this robbery. One witness testified that the robbery netted about $11. Witnesses and the two alleged victims testified that the sisters had absolutely nothing to do with this robbery. Witnesses also testified that the sheriff coerced and threatened them to lie on the Scott Sisters. The sisters have been in prison since October of 1994.

The father of the Scott Sisters moved his family from Chicago, Illinois to Mississippi for a better life. He had no idea of the tragedy that awaited the family in rural Mississippi. On a cold December morning the Scott Sisters left their modest home to purchase heating fuel as Jamie had run out of fuel and had a very young baby in the home. As a result, they experienced car trouble which lead to being framed for armed robbery.

The transcripts state that one witness (a teenager) testified that the sheriff told him he would be sent to Parchman (the notorious Mississippi Prison), to be made out of a woman (raped by men) if he did not lie on the Scott Sisters. There exists several affidavits which state that The Scott Sisters had nothing to do with this crime. The witnesses received very short sentences in this crime while Jamie and Gladys have completed almost 15 years of double life sentences each.

Scott County Mississippi was a dry county, meaning no alcohol could be sold in the county. A relative of the Scott Sisters turned state’s evidence on Sheriff Glenn Warren which placed the sheriff behind bars. The Sheriff had been accepting payoffs to allow business owners to sell alcohol. Deputy Sheriff Marvin Williams briefly worked under Sheriff Warren and is the deputy responsible for fabricating this robbery. Deputy Williams is said to have promised the father that he would “get” him, even if through his daughters. This robbery with double life terms is the method Deputy Marvin Williams used to “get” Mr. Rasco.

Judge Marcus Gordon Presided over this trial. Judge Gordon is the judge who presided over Edgar Ray “Preacher” Killen’s trial. Edgar Ray “Preacher” Killen is a Ku Klux Klansman who assisted in the murders of three civil rights activists, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. Killen was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, which was the forty-first anniversary of the crime. Killen’s punishment was 3 times 20 years in prison or 20 years for each murder – which was reduced by Judge Gordon to manslaughter.

The father of The Scott Sisters passed away of a heart attack, knowing that he could not help his daughters out of the great injustice. Their mother left Mississippi out of fear of additional injustices.

Official Website: http://www.freethescottsisters.com
Follow the Blog: http://www.freejamieandgladyscott.blogspot.com/
Official Yahoogroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeTheScottSisters/
Official Facebook Group: Free The Scott Sisters
Official Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Free-Jamie-Gladys/index.htm
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