Sisters who will share kidney released from prison

PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Two sisters whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other were released from a Mississippi prison today after serving 16 years for an armed robbery.

Jamie and Gladys Scott waved to reporters and yelled, "We're free!" and "God bless y'all!" as they left the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in an SUV.

The sisters are moving to the Florida Panhandle, where their mother and grown children live.

Still, the women have an uncertain future. They still have to make sure they are a compatible match for the transplant. And they have to find a way to pay for everything: Their attorney said they will try to get government-funded Medicaid insurance to pay for the transplant and for 36-year-old Jamie Scott's dialysis, which officials said had cost the state about $200,000 a year.

First, though, they want to eat a good meal, said their attorney, Chokwe Lumumba.