Released Scott Sisters Too Overweight for Kidney Transplant

Updated: Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 1:26 PM CST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 1:26 PM CST

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Two sisters released from a Mississippi prison early on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other must lose at least 160 pounds between them and one must quit smoking before the operation.

Jamie and Gladys Scott had served 16 years of their life sentences for a robbery when they were released Jan. 7. They moved to Pensacola, Fla.

Jamie Scott suffers from kidney failure.

Gov. Haley Barbour set a condition of release that Gladys Scott give her sister a kidney. She had volunteered to do so.

Jamie Scott said Wednesday she wants an operation to lose weight and her sister must stop smoking.

Barbour hasn't said whether he'll send the sisters back to prison if the transplant doesn't happen.
 

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