Nancy Lockhart has been working with the mother of the Scott sisters for the past five years, ever since getting a letter from Ms. Rasco.
Lockhart is a legal analyst specializing in wrongful convictions. After working on the Scott sisters case, she is overjoyed to see them out of jail but says the circumstances are a Catch 22.
Governor Haley Barbour releasing the sisters on indefinite parole after refusing to grant them a pardon twice in the past.
Jamie Scott is being released for medical conditions, she has stage 5 kidney failure. Her sister Gladys is being released on the condition that she donate of her own kidneys to Jamie.
The sisters originally faced with double life sentences after being convicted of armed robbery in a burglary that netted them just $11. The sisters have always maintained that they are innocent.
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