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Corrections Director Kenney tells legislators he let some improperly released inmates remain free
By omaha.com - Todd Cooper, Paul Hammel and Matt Wynn / World-Herald Bureau
Published: 10/14/2014

A prison memo called them the “lost boys”:

The prisoners who, as revealed by a June 15 World-­Herald investigation, were released — in many cases years early — after the State Corrections Department defied two Nebraska Supreme Court rulings.

The man tasked with rounding up the “lost boys,” Corrections Director Mike Kenney, admitted Friday that he “took a very lenient” view of state law when he “invented” a program to allow at least eight inmates to stay home rather than return to prison.

State senators and even two Corrections attorneys who have since resigned had another term for it: illegal.

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