This is a June 17, 2010 file photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections of Gladys Scott who, along with her sister Jamie Scott had their life sentences for robbery suspended Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. The two women were convicted in 1994 for their roles in an armed robbery that netted $11. Barbour said in a news release that 36-year-old Gladys Scott's release is conditioned on her donating one of her kidneys to her sister, who now requires daily dialysis
Kidney parole condition raises ethical questions
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press
"The pros and cons of this decision raise, in my mind, the contradictions of the penal system. If prisoners are slaves according to the Constitution, and their bodies are cannon fodder, and a profitable mechanism to acquire wealth can they not barter their lives, and time, and profit?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
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