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terms for armed robbery. one of them needs a kidney transplant and the other has agreed to be the donor. justice correspondent pete williams has more. reporter: they ve been locked up in a mississippi prison for 16 years. jamie and gladys scott serving life sentences for an armed robbery. punishment civil rights groups consider extreme. now the naacp is praising governor haley barbour s decision to let the women out on humanitarian grounds. thank you, governor barbour, when you re right, you re right. it s a shining example of how the power should be used. reporter: governor barbour did not say he was acting to create an injustice or call the sentence toos harsh. instead he said the older sister, jamie scott, 38, needs a kidney transplant to survive. the sisters no longer pose a threat to society, governor barbour said. medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state, $200,000 a year. the release of gladys scott will be allowed only if she donates one of her kidneys to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101230:17:09:00

you to do. i m going to hand it over to my colleague, derek johnson. this is a very good day. thank you, governor barbour. when you re right you re right. governor david paterson did it in the john white case. now governor barbour. we hope next will be the governor of georgia, the john mcneil case. these are important cases and it s important governors realize there you have it. a press conference under way. jamie and gladys scott serving life sentences for an $11 robbery. supporters rallied for the sisters arguing the time didn t fit the crime. here s the thing. freedom comes with a condition. one sister must donate a kidney to the other. that saves the state on dialysis cost. all vacations eventually end. when the president gets back to the white house, republicans will be moving into their house. we will look at the challenges ahead. first, our random moment.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101230:17:37:00

mississippi s governor is suspending the sentences only if one of gladys kidneys is donated to jamie. we had a bit of the news conference at the top of the hour. did you pick up anything in that news conference? the attorneys spoke for a while. he basically said that they have been in contact. they made a telephone call to gladys and have spoken to her within prison. she was ecstatic with the news. they have not had a conversation with jamie. interesting, the two of them may be sisters but they are not housed together and they re in separate parts of the reason which is the reason for the different communications. the sisters have been in prison for, what, 16 years now? right. they would have been 19 and 22. and now they re, of course, 35 and 38. what crime were they convicted of? it was armed robbery. the way the court case went was that they were accused of luring two men into an ambush where these men were beaten and robbed and a shotgun was involved. yes. yes. they w

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101230:17:36:45

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101230:17:36:45
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