Comments on: Women in Prison: Where Do We Draw the Line? http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: evelyn rasco http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-45983 evelyn rasco Fri, 15 May 2009 20:41:38 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-45983 my name is evelyn rasco i am the mother of jamie and gladys scott life for my daugthers in side the prison walls have been a real nightmarie for me and there kids we live with not understanding how could this happen in the united states of america were you get two life sentence and never physically touched any one our justice styem is nothing but about money the more people they put in prison the more money they make so they dont care that they are distorying kids life i am trying my best to get this to the president and i will not stop my daugthers are dieing in that prison so i take my hat off to people like nancy and everone that have devoted there lives to fight wrongfull convition of anyone the america people should be outrage when they hear cases like this this grils have 5 kids and in 14 yeaars they have 4 grandkids the olds one is 6 years old and it is very hard to explain to them why this happen so please spread this story this is the greatist injustice not just for these 9 kids but also for me to live with i am 63 years old and not in good health these grils need to come home so they can take care of there kids and grankids instead of dieing in a prison cell for nothing please help anyway you can nancy can use all the help she can get a mothers cry for help my name is evelyn rasco i am the mother of jamie and gladys scott life for my daugthers in side the prison walls have been a real nightmarie for me and there kids we live with not understanding how could this happen in the united states of america were you get two life sentence and never physically touched any one our justice styem is nothing but about money the more people they put in prison the more money they make so they dont care that they are distorying kids life i am trying my best to get this to the president and i will not stop my daugthers are dieing in that prison so i take my hat off to people like nancy and everone that have devoted there lives to fight wrongfull convition of anyone the america people should be outrage when they hear cases like this this grils have 5 kids and in 14 yeaars they have 4 grandkids the olds one is 6 years old and it is very hard to explain to them why this happen so please spread this story this is the greatist injustice not just for these 9 kids but also for me to live with i am 63 years old and not in good health these grils need to come home so they can take care of there kids and grankids instead of dieing in a prison cell for nothing please help anyway you can nancy can use all the help she can get a mothers cry for help

]]> By: Peggy Miller http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40397 Peggy Miller Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:53:51 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40397 I have been "Blessed" to meet both of these Christian ladies and knew a lot about their fight for freedom from their wrongful conviction. I am SO THRILLED that Nancy Lockhart has taken on the spreading of the TRUTH about this case and am praying "real justice" will soon happen for Gladys and Jamie. I have a Cousin wrongfully convicted as well and we KNOW this is just AWFUL!! My love one was charged and convicted 18 years after her step daughter died on her couch. She was convicted with "NO EVIDENCE". She was convicted on "Speculation, Conjecture and Theory" only, and has a life sentence. I could tell you things about her case that you just would not believe. She also is at the same facility as the Scott Sisters and we used to have the same day for visits but that has changed because they moved these sisters to seperate buildings several years ago. I am praying for them and ALL wrongfully convicted. Thank you for the publicity and hopefully someone will see or hear their story and help them. None of us have the money it would take to help fight these cases. Especially the one's where no "DNA" or "new evidence" are part of their fight. DNA cases are being looked at but backlogged no telling how far back. We really need some very compitent lawyers to help us. Fees would range from 200,000 dollars and up. Mississippi does not want to admit to wrongful convictions so it is a horrible web these ladies are in but I am SO THANKFUL for people who REALLY CARE!! I have been “Blessed” to meet both of these Christian ladies and knew a lot about their fight for freedom from their wrongful conviction. I am SO THRILLED that Nancy Lockhart has taken on the spreading of the TRUTH about this case and am praying “real justice” will soon happen for Gladys and Jamie. I have a Cousin wrongfully convicted as well and we KNOW this is just AWFUL!! My love one was charged and convicted 18 years after her step daughter died on her couch. She was convicted with “NO EVIDENCE”. She was convicted on “Speculation, Conjecture and Theory” only, and has a life sentence. I could tell you things about her case that you just would not believe. She also is at the same facility as the Scott Sisters and we used to have the same day for visits but that has changed because they moved these sisters to seperate buildings several years ago. I am praying for them and ALL wrongfully convicted. Thank you for the publicity and hopefully someone will see or hear their story and help them. None of us have the money it would take to help fight these cases. Especially the one’s where no “DNA” or “new evidence” are part of their fight. DNA cases are being looked at but backlogged no telling how far back. We really need some very compitent lawyers to help us. Fees would range from 200,000 dollars and up. Mississippi does not want to admit to wrongful convictions so it is a horrible web these ladies are in but I am SO THANKFUL for people who REALLY CARE!!

]]> By: gloria killian http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40303 gloria killian Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:57:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40303 I spent 17 1/2 in prison for a crime that I didn't commit until I was exonerated in 2002. I totally understand the hell these women endure. We must get them out! I spent 17 1/2 in prison for a crime that I didn’t commit until I was exonerated in 2002. I totally understand the hell these women endure. We must get them out!

]]> By: Todd Olson http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40286 Todd Olson Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:51:18 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40286 Dear Lord please lord I beg you, I remember what both of these grils are going threw. But I got off completely much easyer then they have.Please lord help us think of more ways to help. You are my best friend lord I walk with you & you walk for me. Help me think. Dear Lord please lord I beg you, I remember what both of these grils are going threw. But I got off completely much easyer then they have.Please lord help us think of more ways to help. You are my best friend lord I walk with you & you walk for me. Help me think.

]]> By: Nancy Lockhart, M.J. http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40270 Nancy Lockhart, M.J. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:37:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40270 Follow Us On Twitter ~ http://twitter.com/ScottSisters Follow Us On Twitter ~
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]]> By: Nancy Lockhart, M.J. http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40217 Nancy Lockhart, M.J. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:51:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40217 Thank You Lloyd, I will join you at Op Ed! As a volunteer for the Scott sisters assistance as such is certainly welcome. Unfortunately, there are not enough resources or hours in the day to take on additional cases. Our justice system is in dire need or an overhaul. Nancy Lockhart thewrongfulconviction@gmail.com Thank You Lloyd,

I will join you at Op Ed! As a volunteer for the Scott sisters assistance as such is certainly welcome. Unfortunately, there are not enough resources or hours in the day to take on additional cases. Our justice system is in dire need or an overhaul.
Nancy Lockhart
moc.liamgnull@noitcivnoclufgnorweht

]]> By: lloyd rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40209 lloyd rowsey Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:08:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40209 This article has now appeared at OpEdNews, in the "Best Op-Ed" column, down about halfway on OEN's homepage. Please be aware that OEN has a policy against "Prisoner Advocay" (sic), and this article was only accepted because of its excellence and because it concerned women. So anyone going there to put up repeated and persistent pleas for "Prisoners Rights" (ie, conducting "Prisoner Advocacy") can expect their comment(s) to be deleted. This article has now appeared at OpEdNews, in the “Best Op-Ed” column, down about halfway on OEN’s homepage. Please be aware that OEN has a policy against “Prisoner Advocay” (sic), and this article was only accepted because of its excellence and because it concerned women. So anyone going there to put up repeated and persistent pleas for “Prisoners Rights” (ie, conducting “Prisoner Advocacy”) can expect their comment(s) to be deleted.

]]> By: Diane http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40206 Diane Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:44:43 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40206 Nancy, Slavery, or the state of being dominated, is alive and well in more than Mississippi! I do understand there is a need for law and order. I do understand there is a need for accountability and punishment for actions. There is never a need for cruelty. There should be a standard for EVERYONE including those enforcing the laws. Our society is not concerned with justice and fairness and either ignores or condones cruelty of so many kinds in our legal and prison systems. Our legal system rewards for conviction rates whether they are real or manipulated. We have modern technology that could help identify the guilty or perhaps the innocent but withholds those tools. Why? Where is the accountability for those people that withhold justice? Let's think about this sanely. When we see that people are FINALLY allowed to prove their innocence, it is almost always after decades of being in prison. Why would it possibly take that many years to prove one's innocence? Don't those wasted years make anyone angry? It becomes even more bazaar if those wasted years could have been avoided by acknowledging the results of a test. Let's face the fact that our prison system is a corrupt government money maker using humans as their commodity and nobody is made accountable. Nancy, Slavery, or the state of being dominated, is alive and well in more than Mississippi! I do understand there is a need for law and order. I do understand there is a need for accountability and punishment for actions. There is never a need for cruelty. There should be a standard for EVERYONE including those enforcing the laws. Our society is not concerned with justice and fairness and either ignores or condones cruelty of so many kinds in our legal and prison systems. Our legal system rewards for conviction rates whether they are real or manipulated. We have modern technology that could help identify the guilty or perhaps the innocent but withholds those tools. Why? Where is the accountability for those people that withhold justice? Let’s think about this sanely. When we see that people are FINALLY allowed to prove their innocence, it is almost always after decades of being in prison. Why would it possibly take that many years to prove one’s innocence? Don’t those wasted years make anyone angry? It becomes even more bazaar if those wasted years could have been avoided by acknowledging the results of a test. Let’s face the fact that our prison system is a corrupt government money maker using humans as their commodity and nobody is made accountable.

]]> By: Josie Michel-Brüning http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40200 Josie Michel-Brüning Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:42:31 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40200 Above all, thanks to the author Nancy R. Lockhart! Please, include the following political prisoners into your campaign, "free the Scott Sisters": the "Cuban Five", the Sioux leader Leonard Peltier, the black journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. After all, there seems to be a world wide campaign for a new jurisdiction needed, a real change of our neoliberal system. However, to begin with we can pick up those prominent and ourstanding cases. Best wishes to all of us. Above all, thanks to the author Nancy R. Lockhart!

Please, include the following political prisoners into your campaign, “free the Scott Sisters”: the “Cuban Five”, the Sioux leader Leonard Peltier, the black journalist Mumia Abu Jamal.
After all, there seems to be a world wide campaign for a new jurisdiction needed, a real change of our neoliberal system.
However, to begin with we can pick up those prominent and ourstanding cases.

Best wishes to all of us.

]]> By: lloyd rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40189 lloyd rowsey Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:48:11 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40189 Thanks for this Nancy. I'm going to submit it as a Quicklink at OpEdNews, requesting the Editors to put it in the "General News" column, near the center of OEN's homepage. Please come over if you have time, and comment on it and on any comments to it, there. Lloyd Rowsey Thanks for this Nancy. I’m going to submit it as a Quicklink at OpEdNews, requesting the Editors to put it in the “General News” column, near the center of OEN’s homepage. Please come over if you have time, and comment on it and on any comments to it, there.

Lloyd Rowsey

]]> By: lloyd rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/women-in-prison-where-doe-we-draw-the-line/#comment-40188 lloyd rowsey Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:47:51 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7051#comment-40188 Thanks for this Nancy. I'm going to submit it as a Quickline at OpEdNews, requesting the Editors to put it in the "General News" column, near the center of OEN's homepage. Please come over if you have time, and comment on it and on any comments to it, there. Lloyd Rowsey Thanks for this Nancy. I’m going to submit it as a Quickline at OpEdNews, requesting the Editors to put it in the “General News” column, near the center of OEN’s homepage. Please come over if you have time, and comment on it and on any comments to it, there.

Lloyd Rowsey

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