Jamie Scott's situation remains unchanged. Our legal experts are working on a variety of different angles to make things happen for her. Our legal adviser, Jaribu Hill, wants to thank all of the supporters and asks that anyone contact her with information that may help the case at jaribuhill@yahoo.com. She advises that we continue to focus on the governor's office with calls, faxes and e-mails as this will complement the work that is happening. In 2009 this governor pardoned a man that killed his wife after the woman was continually complaining about him to the police and so there is no reason that he not release Jamie and Gladys Scott who are guilty of no crime and not even charged with any violence!
Mrs. Rasco did an excellent interview on WJZD Mississippi radio yesterday to call out for help from those listeners. Please help us to push for more national media coverage to get this case the attention it needs!
There is a major problem with some callers cursing and yelling when calling the prison. Please control yourself when speaking to these people as these outbursts are not helping but instead are actually harming our efforts. Thanks for keeping it together and being polite.
Please use the below in your mailings and postings where a general overview is needed. Thanks so much to all of you who have answered the call to fight for Jamie's life and freedom for the Scott Sisters!
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Jamie Scott #19197: Prisoner in Urgent Need of Hospitalization
1/25/2010
Jamie Scott is a 38 year old inmate in the Central Mississippi Corr. Facility, Pearl, MS. She entered the prison as a young, healthy woman 15 years ago but has suffered with many medical ailments that were never properly diagnosed nor treated.
Jamie suffered kidney failure approximately two weeks ago and was being held in the prison infirmary while the prison stubbornly refused to move her to a hospital for treatment. Calls went out worldwide demanding that action be taken to save Jamie's life, yet the prison refused to budge. The prison has known that Jamie was sick for some time, yet her condition was allowed to manifest and deteriorate to this level. Jamie was informed by one of the kidney specialists that the medicines that the prison was giving her could have triggered her kidneys to shut down.
On 1/22/2010 Jamie was abruptly taken to Central Mississippi Medical Center at 5:00 am and a temporary catheter was inserted into her neck, returning back to the prison around noon that same day. She was told that her body was full of toxins and that she had to be treated to help to clear them from her body and would need a permanent shunt placed in her body at a later date.
Jamie Scott is presently locked down in a cell at the prison, even though she is still seriously ill and should be hospitalized! Jamie, her family and supporters do not trust the prison to provide her with sufficient medical care at all, their track record is horrible with her and her current condition is proof of it. It is the prison's intention to carry out her dialysis treatments in a trailer and then return her to a rain-soaked and mold-infested prison ward that is not fit for human habitation. Jamie needs to be fully assessed as the condition of her other organs are still yet unknown and are now jeopardized as a result of her kidney
failure. She needs to be monitored in a hospital where she can finally get all her illnesses correctly diagnosed and addressed, including depression, as this is a life and death situation and must not be taken lightly! Please address this matter urgently.
More info is available at: http://www.freethescottsisters.blogspot.com
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BE DIRECT BUT PLEASE BE COURTEOUS
Governor Haley Barbour
P.O. Box 139
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
1-877-405-0733 or 601-359-3150
Fax: 601-359-3741
(If you reach VM leave msgs, faxes, and please send letters)
MAYOR OF PEARL, MISSISSIPPI (Where Jamie is incarcerated):
Brad Rogers
Phone Number (601) 932 3575
Fax Number (601)932-3568
Congressman Gregg Harper
2507-A Old Brandon Road
Pearl, MS 39208
Phone: (601) 932 2410
Fax: (601) 932 4647
U.S. Senator Thad Cochran
United States Senate
Wash., D.C. 20510-2402
JACKSON 601-965-4459
Contact Form: http://cochran.senate.gov/contact.htm
Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
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