LINCOLN, Neb. ( Nebraska Examiner ) - The Nebraska Governor’s Office said a 17-day delay in publicizing a state-federal contract to convert a Nebraska prison into an immigration detention center was needed to conduct a legal review first of what information, if any, should be withheld.

Rob Jeffreys, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, signed the 183-page contract with attachments with an unnamed official in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding use of the Work Ethic Camp in McCook on Sept. 30. However, the contract was not made publicly available until Oct. 17, when Gov. Jim Pillen’s office publicized the partnership.

In a Wednesday email responding to questions from Oct. 17, Pillen spokesperson Laura Strimple detailed the reasons for the lega

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