September 11 2010 September 18 2010

The fourth week of September 4 2010 until September 11 2010, I continue to work at WJSU FM 88.5. This week I supplied News Voicer and scripts for the Nooncast. I produced the newscast for the Radio Station this week. This week  I videotape Marchers in support of the Scott Sister's from a crime that occurred almost 16 years ago. Here's a copy of  The script I did for Radio Newscast and Raw Video. Also on September 17, I videotape footage of Rapper MC Lyte who spoke at the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium. This program will be featured in October on JSU22.

Scott Sisters March TRT 2:17

Hundreds of people from all walks of life came out today in support of the jailed Scott Sisters…Jamie and Gladys Scott were convicted of armed robbery.  The sisters got life in Prison for the Crime over eleven dollars in 1993. News Now Update Reporter Kourtney Christopher Paige was in attendance, alongside supporters of the women.  He has our story from the streets of downtown Jackson

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On a warm humid Sunny Wednesday Afternoon, Marchers with signs in hand follow in step with precision from the elderly to the young college student, Blacks and Whites with one goal in mind as they chanted from their starting point at Hamilton and Farish Streets in downtown Jackson.  The one mission in mind.

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Jamie and Gladys Scott were each convicted of 2 counts of armed robbery and sentenced to two life sentences in 1993. According to court records, they were found guilty of luring two men down a road near Forest, Mississippi where three young assailants used a shotgun to rob the men. The men have been free but the women are still behind bars.

Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes echoed the words of many people we spoke today, Stokes is outraged.

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Regina Kelly from Texas shared her thoughts about the crime the women committed. Her argument is not that the women did the right thing at the time, but the crime didn’t fit the number of years served by the Scott sisters. She also feels that just because it’s an Election year that Governor Haley Barbour should do the right thing minus the politics.

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Organizers for the Scott sister’s know the power to pardon is in the hands of the Governor, Barbour has all the power to according to them…They feel that 16 years is too long for 11 dollars as they sit in jail in 20-10.

On the streets of downtown Jackson, I’m Kourtney Christopher Paige, News Now Update at Five.

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Almost one thousand people were in attendance today as the march moved to the Steps of the Capitol. Marchers also spoke outside the gates of the Governor’s Mansion along the way. They’re hoping the march was not in vain, because one of the sisters has lost the use of both her kidneys and they have exhausted all of there appeals.