Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The ex-head of a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan group has been transferred to Tennessee to finish out his four-year prison term on drug and gun charges.

The federal Bureau of Prisons moved 55-year-old Ronald Wayne Edwards from the maximum-security prison in Terre Haute, Ind., to a residential facility in Nashville. He is scheduled for release from federal custody on Feb. 28.

Edwards pleaded guilty in 2011. He headed the Dawson Springs, Ky.-based Imperial Klans of America.

The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Edwards in 2008, saying that members of his Klan group attacked a 16-year-old U.S. citizen of Panamanian Indian descent because they thought he was an "illegal spic." A jury in Brandenburg, Ky., found Edwards liable for 20 percent of the $2.5 million they awarded the teen.