Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
MRS. RASCO RADIO INTERVIEW W/BLOCK REPORT RADIO
Mrs. Rasco had a great interview with Bro. JR on 1/22/10, the first time Jamie was taken to the hospital and the temporary catheter was initially placed. This interview took place before we were aware that Jamie had already been thrown back into the prison that very same day. Thanks to the Block Report for always supporting those who need it most!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2/7 COMPASSIONATE RELEASE FOR JAMIE SCOTT!
2/8 Addendum -- Mrs. Rasco reports that the building Jamie is in has had no heat or hot water all weekend! Still no word of if/when she will be taken to the hospital.
-------------
Greetings all,
Please continue to call and write to support the Scott Sisters and particularly Jamie Scott during this period of medical emergency. Specifically this week we are asking that a special focus be placed on COMPASSIONATE RELEASE for Jamie Scott through the governor's office. As was reported on 2/5/10 the level of medical care that she is receiving in that prison is ATROCIOUS, she missed a dialysis treatment!, has a possibly infected and malfunctioning temporary catheter, and just prior to that went into shock due to malpractice on the part of the prison medical staff!
Jamie was told that she would be going back to the hospital for surgery to have a permanent shunt installed on Monday or Tuesday, but we don't know that this will occur or if it will even be appropriately used given the circumstances surrounding the failures of the prison to properly care for her to date. The family and legal supporters are pressing to get Jamie released based on her frighteningly declining health ever since her initial imprisonment!
Executive Paralegal with Advocate Associates, Sis. Shakeerah Abdul al-Sabuur, has filed for Compassionate Release for Jamie and we need to request that Gov. Haley Barbour act on that and immediately release JAMIE SCOTT, #19197, from CMCF. He is under a budget crisis, has stated that releasing inmates from the prisons are a possibility, and has released inmates in the past. Jamie Scott must get the medical care that she needs to survive OUTSIDE of those prison walls! The link to the paperwork that was submitted is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/26252282/COMPASSIONATE-RELEASE-FOR-JAMIE-SCOTT.
The other contacts are definitely still very important, particularly mainstream media, but we absolutely must make certain that the governor's office hears and reads from a whole lot of people to bolster the efforts of our legal advisers. PLEASE PASS THE WORD AND HELP TO LIGHT UP THAT OFFICE THIS WEEK!
Thank you so much, everyone!
---------------------
BE DIRECT BUT PLEASE BE COURTEOUS -- NO YELLING OR CURSING! IT WILL ONLY TAKE A FEW MINUTES, PLEASE PARTICIPATE!
CLICK FOR PRISON/MEDIA/POLITICAL CONTACT LIST
Friday, February 5, 2010
2/5 JAMIE SCOTT UPDATE!
Greetings all,
Jamie Scott got word out about 3:00 EST that she was told that her dialysis for today was cancelled because the machine at the prison was broken! As if that isn't bad enough, she reports that her temporary catheter is full of blood and pus and appears to be infected. Of course she and her family are terrified of any complications happening to her as she is still suffering with extreme weakness and other ill effects from her serious medical condition.
Atty. Chokwe Lumumba visited Gladys and Jamie yesterday to collect data on Jamie's physical treatment at the prison. He is presently exploring options on how to legally proceed with getting Jamie the medical care that she desperately needs.
~~~~~
Jamie also recently wrote a letter to her supporters, excerpts of which follow:
"First let me thank you for the prayers, strength and consideration you have displayed for me and my sister. This ordeal with my kidneys has truly broke me down. I am tired, but I know I cannot give up, because of my family and many supporters.
It was first determined that I had protein in my urine in 1997. Throughout the years it went uncured and untreated and I wasn't hurting so I thought nothing of it. They would take tests and never receive results. I had a kidney biopsy done around 1997, but once again never received any results. My uterus fell and was removed in 2005. Once again, I never received results of tests on my kidneys.
Now what we must not do is lose our temper and make things worse. Please, you cannot call up here and use abusive language. That will not solve anything. About my dialysis treatments, I go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The set up is inside a trailer.
It is hard and I want my life. The only thing as a whole we can do is try to get the Governor to do something right and release me and Gladys.
I want to thank each one of you for everything you have done.
-- Jamie."
~~~~
Mrs. Rasco did a wonderful Interview with Bro. JR of Block Report Radio/POCC on 1/22 when Jamie was first taken to the hospital, his interview is about 3/4 of the way thru the program at http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100128-Thu1700.mp3 . This was before we knew that Jamie had already been returned back to the prison that same day.
Mrs. Rasco is scheduled to be a guest on the Empowerment Hour Radio Show tomorrow 2/6 at 6pm EST, which is accessible at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/eadyassociates and anyone can call (646) 716-7472 to join in the conversation or just listen.
In light of this most recent emergency, we need to start ASAP on trying to get someone to assess and treat Jamie Scott. We need to contact the prison, governor's office and as much mainstream media as we can! We have to put pressure on Mississippi to get Jamie the medical attention she needs and to get she and Gladys released from their unjust imprisonment! Thank you very much!
~~~~~~~~
BE DIRECT BUT PLEASE BE COURTEOUS
CLICK FOR PRISON/MEDIA/POLITICAL CONTACT LIST
Monday, February 1, 2010
2/1 INMATE SAVES JAMIE'S LIFE!!
Jamie Scott called home last night to the relief of her mother and family!
Following dialysis treatment at the prison last week Jamie was locked in a cell and was not checked on at all by anyone for a very long while. When an inmate stopped by Jamie's cell to speak to her, the inmate was alarmed that she was not moving and was completely unresponsive. It was because of this inmate yelling out for help that Jamie was found to be in shock and rushed by ambulance to the Central Mississippi Medical Facility, where she had been a patient during the entire time the prison refused to give her mother or legal supporters any information at all.
If not for this inmate's intervention Jamie may not have survived. Her heart rate and blood pressure were way off, as well as her magnesium levels. Her treatment had not been carried out properly and the doctor had to send back written instructions on how to care for her. The doctor alerted Jamie that there was a problem with the insertion of the temporary catheter in her neck and that it's placement could lead to infection, stating that the doctor who placed it needed to be contacted. As of last night Jamie was in the prison infirmary.
We are more concerned than ever about Jamie's medical care and are still pushing for mainstream media coverage to shine a bright light on her steady, perilous decline due to CUT-RATE medical care with the prison's rule of thumb being whatever is quickest, cheapest (whether or not it's actually the right treatment) or nothing at all!
Although Mrs. Rasco has a legal advisor, Atty Jaribu Hill, she is still in dire need of a criminal attorney. There are many issues that need to be addressed and we are actively seeking any information that would help her obtain a lawyer. We are extremely fortunate to have a fantastic and heavily experienced paralegal recently volunteer to work with us and who would be of great assistance to any attorney that would help to right the very egregious wrongs the Scott Sisters have suffered these many years.
Jamie Scott nor her sister should even be locked down in that prison in the first place, this case is galling beyond belief and calls into question every platitude this nation applies to itself when falsely lauding itself as a human rights champion! Please continue to make as many contacts as possible on the Scott Sisters' behalf, we are interested in all of your ideas and creativity to get this story out there!
------------
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
CLICK FOR MEDIA/POLITICAL CONTACT LIST
Saturday, January 30, 2010
URGENT: JAMIE SCOTT RUSHED TO HOSPITAL!
1/30/2010
Mrs. Evelyn Rasco has confirmed through a sergeant and nurse at the prison that Jamie was rushed to the hospital due to a decline in her condition earlier today. The prison will not confirm anything further, whatsoever, not even whether Jamie is still alive or where specifically she has been taken (the hospitals will not confirm whether Jamie is a patient at any of them either).
We had received a report a few days ago that Jamie should have been returned to the Medical Bldg. at the prison due to severe weakness and difficulty carrying out her activities of daily living, however this did NOT happen.
Jamie Scott should have remained hospitalized long ago due to her kidney failure and other health issues that are impacted by such a serious development!! The prison has played games with Jamie's life long enough and should have never moved her back from
the hospital to begin with!
We need to know Jamie Scott's condition and what is happening to her. She must not, once again, be returned to the prison to continue to deteriorate, her medical care must be taken out of the prison's hands!
Updates will follow as soon as they are available! Please keep checking in as much as you are able!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1/27 JAMIE SCOTT UPDATE!
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!
-----------
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
------------
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
CLICK FOR MEDIA/POLITICAL CONTACT LIST
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
CLICK BELOW FOR:
SCOTT SISTERS CASE TRANSCRIPTS
SCOTT SISTERS CASE OPINION
SCOTT SISTERS INDICTMENT
IF YOU WISH TO DONATE, PLEASE SEND MONEY ORDER TO:
MRS. EVELYN RASCOP.O. BOX 7100PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 32534
Email Mrs. Rasco
FREE THE SCOTT SISTERS T-SHIRTS are available and may be purchased at http://www.radicaljack.com/scsit.html. Please order your shirts, wear them and assist us in spreading the word.
MRS. EVELYN RASCO
P.O. BOX 7100
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 32534
Email Mrs. Rasco
FREE THE SCOTT SISTERS T-SHIRTS are available and may be purchased at http://www.radicaljack.com/scsit.html. Please order your shirts, wear them and assist us in spreading the word.
