Escaped inmate caught in Hattiesburg
Source: By MARGARET BAKER, Sun Herald (FL), Fri, Sep. 01, 2006
HATTIESBURG — The search ended has ended for a prisoner who escaped from the custody of a private prison transport service that had stopped at the Mississippi Welcome Center on its way to Texas from Indiana earlier in the week. Kevin Alva, 49, escaped custody after the private transport service group made a stop at the Mississippi Welcome Center on Interstate 10 just past the Mississippi-Alabama state line Monday.