Man Gets 40 Years for Escaping a Correctional Facility Before the End of His 7-Year Prison Term
A Mississippi man was sentenced Monday to 40 years in state prison for breaking out of a correctional facility and holding three people at gunpoint last year, just months before he was to have completed a seven-year sentence.
Shunekndrick Huffman, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and a circuit court judge sentenced him to 40 years in state prison, Rankin County District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said Monday.
Huffman, who escaped from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in August 2022, had nearly completed a seven-year sentence for aggravated assault with an expected release date in December of that year.
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