MALONE - A few days after Jacksonville trucker Alvin Wilkerson went to prison in June, a guard asked if it was his first time there.

Wilkerson is doing seven years after pleading no contest in a horrific crash that killed seven children from one family on a remote Union County roadway. Prosecutors said he fell asleep at the wheel.

Housed at the Graceville Work Camp, a far-flung outp...