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Jamie and Gladys Scott, often referred to as the Scott sisters, were convicted of participating in a 1993 armed robbery in Forest, Mississippi. Both sisters received double life sentences,[1][2] an outcome that was criticized as too severe by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,[2] the prosecutor who originally tried the case,[1] New York Times columnist Bob Herbert,[3] [4] and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts,[5] on the grounds that the sisters had no previous criminal record and the robbery netted a relatively small amount of money and resulted in no injuries.[3]