Three inmates have received maximum sentences of 15 years each for taking three nurses hostage at the Bay County Jail in Panama City, Florida.
Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America runs the jail.

The men have been sentenced on false imprisonment charges. A year ago, a 12-hour stand-off ended with police firing gunshots that wounded a nurse and two inmates.
Each inmate was convicted on three counts, one for each nurse. The judge ordered the maximum sentence of five years on each count to run consecutively and begin when their existing sentences are completed.

That means Kevin Nix will spend the next 28 years in prison, James Norton will have 16 years left and Matthew Coffin will have 24 years total. They were convicted last week by a jury that acquitted them on more serious charges that could've resulted in life sentences.