2002 — Chris Epps is appointed Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner. Nov. 2, 2007 — Epps signs a no-bid MDOC contract with G.T. Enterprises, a company owned by co-defendant Cecil ...

Former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps' sentencing has been delayed once again. Also, Assistant U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca told U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on ...

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps, who resigned abruptly this week, has been charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a ...

The attorney for ex-state prisons chief Christopher Epps confirms Epps bought or leased his wife a car the day after he appeared in court to answer federal corruption charges.John Collette told The ...

Christopher B. Epps, the former director of Mississippi's prison system, sat in federal courthouse as some of the people around him made small talk, some even joking about the charges Epps faces.

The lawyer for indicted former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps wants to push back the Jan. 5 trial date.John Colette, in a motion filed Thursday, wrote he received 75 discs of ...

For years, Chris Epps ran the state of Mississippi’s prisons—now he calls prison home. The state’s former corrections commissioner is currently serving time at a federal prison in Texas for running ...

JACKSON — Thursday was like Groundhog Day in the Christopher Epps prosecution. Everything was on repeat. Lawyers were again arguing in federal court over how to count the damage that the former ...

Epps' legal troubles have apparently been mounting for months. Rankin County land records obtained by the Clarion-Ledger show that federal officials filed forfeiture proceedings in March against Epps' ...

Chris Epps pleaded guilty to two counts of a 49-count federal indictment. He is scheduled to be sentenced in April. Epps' wife hadn't given up any of her rights to any of the property prior to the ...