A former CMS teacher serving time for statutory rape has been killed in prison. The NC Department of Adult Corrections said this week that 60-year-old Ernest Nichols was found unresponsive at Greene Correctional Institution, outside Goldsboro. The death is being investigated as a homicide. Nichols was a teacher at Ranson Middle School prior to his 2011 conviction.
Greene Correctional is a minimum-security prison facility for inmates nearing the end of their sentences. Nichols was projected to be released in two years.