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\n<\/span><\/p>\nTwo sisters whose life sentences in Mississippi were dropped on the condition one donates a kidney to the other must lose a combined 160lb (73kg) before the transplant, doctors say.<\/p>\n
Jamie and Gladys Scott, who had been in jail for 16 years, were freed on 7 January because Jamie suffers from kidney failure.<\/p>\n
They were convicted in 1994 for a robbery that netted a mere $11 (\u00a37).<\/p>\n
Doctors are also requiring Gladys to stop smoking cigarettes.<\/p>\n
Jamie Scott, 38, told the Associated Press news agency that she must drop 100lb and Gladys, 36, lose 60lb before their doctors will test their compatibility for a transplant.<\/p>\n
Early release<\/span><\/p>\nThe sisters work twice per week with a personal trainer and have been taking aerobics classes since their release.<\/p>\n
Jamie, who weighs 254lb, said she also hoped to undergo surgery that would help her lose weight in order to get the transplant sooner.<\/p>\n
Jamie Scott requires daily dialysis, which was costing the state of Mississippi roughly $200,000 (\u00a3129,000) per year, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said in January.<\/p>\n
Mr Barbour agreed to release the sisters – who were serving life sentences for leading two men into an ambush in Mississippi in 1993 – on the condition that Gladys donated a kidney to her sister within a year.<\/p>\n
Gladys, who came up with the idea for the transplant, volunteered to donate her kidney to her sister in her petition for early release.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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