JOPLIN, Mo. – A male driver for a company that ferries prisoners between jails was sentenced to nine years in prison for forcing a female prisoner into a bathroom stall at a highway rest stop and raping her. Rogeric Hankins, 37, had been arrested after the woman complained. The woman was being extradited to St. Paul in Minnesota for pre-trial proceedings. She had been picked up on a Minnesota warrant in Olympia, Washington. It’s common for transport services to take round-about routes and pick up and drop off prisoners along the way. Hankins worked for Inmate Services Corporation. The incident was in March 2020.
