A former Mississippi Department of Corrections employee faces sentencing in February after admitting to federal charges accusing her of using inmates’ records to file false income tax returns.

Forty-two-year-old Janice Singleton, a Jackson tax preparer who also was a corrections officer at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, made a plea agreement to bank fraud, wire fraud, making false or fraudulent claims and aggravated identity theft.

Singleton is set for sentencing Feb. 27 before U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate.

The charges carry a maximum 40-plus years in prison, but under federal sentencing guidelines Singleton will face much less.

Her attorney, Buddy Coxwell, has said his client is a good person who made some bad choices.