{"id":1312,"date":"2011-04-18T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2011-04-18T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:31:47","slug":"lose-weight-or-stay-in-prison-sisters-told-7879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/lose-weight-or-stay-in-prison-sisters-told-7879\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose Weight Or Stay In Prison \u2013 Sisters Told-7879"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two sisters who are currently serving prison sentences in a Mississippi prison were told to lose weight otherwise they would not be released from prison.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sisters, Gladys Scott was also told she must donate a kidney to the other. Unfortunately, the recipient of the kidney, Jamie Scott has to lose 100 pounds before she can have the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The younger of the two sisters, Gladys was also told that she must stop smoking as well as lose 40 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously a mammoth task for both siblings, but will no doubt be a great incentive to be released from prison early.<\/p>\n<p>The Scott sisters were convicted of robbing two men they met at a roadside. They were sentenced to 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>While welcoming the strange stipulation for their release Jamie Scott told reporters: &#8220;My sister and I we were going to do that regardless. They didn&#8217;t need to make that a stipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added:\u00a0 &#8220;When we were in prison, Gladys begged the guards to tell the supervisor that she wanted to be tested to see if she could donate a kidney to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve cut out all fried foods. I want to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sisters\u2019 mother Evelyn Rasco also commented, saying: &#8220;Their spirits are high, and I see them every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jamie just wishes she could hurry up and have the surgery. She is working hard to lose weight, though. She&#8217;s doing aerobics, and she is stiff and sore when she gets out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While close in age, compatibility may be a problem. As such, it is not known if Gladys Scott will be forced to stay in prison if her kidney isn\u2019t a match for her sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sisters who are currently serving prison sentences in a Mississippi prison were told to lose weight otherwise they would not be released from prison. One of the sisters, Gladys Scott was also told she must donate a kidney to the other. Unfortunately, the recipient of the kidney, Jamie Scott has to lose 100 pounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[851,857,852,423],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-kidney-transplant","tag-lose-weight","tag-prison","tag-surgery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}