NAACP Looks To Cash In On Scott Sisters Plight

January 6th, 2011

As the Scott Sisters are scheduled to be heading for freedom tomorrow after spending 16 years locked up on life sentences for supposed participation in an $11 robbery; where the actual admitted gun carrying robbers were released many years ago, the NAACP is ratcheting up their personal publicity machine. Actually they’re providing more publicity [...]

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Scott Sisters To Be Freed By Mississippi Governor

January 6th, 2011

From BlackPerspctive.net:
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We have covered the Scott Sisters story and advocated for justice for the sisters ardently here for the pass 2 years. (check this link for the back story.)
It seems that all the work of people on the ground, and of the black blogosphere in propelling this story into the mainstream, like we did before [...]

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Help Jamie Scott, Continued Inhumane Medical Mis-Treatment

November 1st, 2010

From the Scott sisters mother, Evelyn Rasco, via Sis Marpessa:
Greetings,
Jamie Scott’s headaches have continued unabated for this entire month and all
the prison has done is offer her medications which are NOT helping! She and
many others have asked that she be HOSPITALIZED and have her head scanned.
Even though Jamie is seriously ill, receiving [...]

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