A Warren County Jail inmate who set fire to his mattress in a cell block has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In addition, Pinkston Patterson, 27, 414 Linda Drive, will serve seven years for business burglary, the charge for which he was in the jail.

Patterson pleaded guilty to arson and to burglary before Circuit Judge Isadore Patrick, who ordered the sentences to be served consecutively. He was also ordered to pay court costs and state assessments of $322.50.

Fifteen other inmates were locked in the cell block with Patterson on Dec. 29, when he started the fire. No one was injured, but the inmates had to be moved temporarily to a recreation area while cleanup took place.

Patterson was on probation from a previous sentence for robbery and cocaine convictions when he was arrested March 21, 2009, for the burglary. After his probation was revoked because of the new arrest, Patterson was in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. MDOC officials transferred him to the Warren County Jail in August, where he was awaiting trial on the new charge.

Also in Warren County Circuit Court for the week ending Friday:

• Charles Meekins, 36, 622 Adams St., was found guilty of violating probation and sentenced by Judge M. James Chaney to five years in prison with credit for time served. Meekins was charged in 2004 with felony domestic violence.

• Jeffery Dewayne Stamps, 35, 1108 Fayette St., pleaded guilty to sale of cocaine and was sentenced by Chaney to five years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus fines and costs of $2,822.50. Stamps was arrested Oct. 22, 2007.