Haley Barbour: “For decades our governor's mansion has been served primarily by inmates from the state penal system, almost all…”

My head of the National Guard might as well have been a Civil War general . . . because he could only find out what [was] going on by sending somebody.

I have no doubt in my mind that these men have repented, have been redeemed, have come back hard working to prepare themselves to go out into the world. I have no question in my life.

Governor Haley Barbour agreed to suspend their sentences if Gladys Scott donated a kidney to her sister Janie Scott, now on dialysis.

I am comfortable every one of these who were mansion inmates are rehabilitated and have redeemed themselves, and they deserve a second chance. And that's what we as Christians believe.