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DOC Worker Turned Inmate Wants Parole
By clarionledger.com
Published: 02/28/2011

A former Mississippi Department of Corrections officer who stole inmates' identities to file false tax returns wants the state to grant her parole or trusty status so she can be released early to a federal halfway house.

Janice Singleton, 45, of Jackson is serving a 52-month federal sentence for bank fraud, wire fraud, making false or fraudulent claims and aggravated identity theft after pleading guilty in December 2008. She also pleaded guilty in Rankin County Circuit Court to identity theft involving the same case and was given 30 months to serve.

The federal and state sentences are to run concurrently.

Singleton said via e-mail to The Clarion-Ledger that she is scheduled to go before a Federal Bureau of Prisons committee in May and could get into a halfway house early and be able to go on furloughs.

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