FLORENCE, AZ (AZFamily) — State lawmakers are demanding answers after a dangerous inmate tricked the prison system into releasing him decades before his sentence was up.

You could call it a clever prison break pulled off by Arizona inmate David Cramer. He walked out a free man in June after he was put behind bars in 2014 for felony charges, including kidnapping.

“What’s going on with Cramer? I keep hearing about an inmate that got out?” Sen. Kevin Payne, a Republican from Peoria , asked Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Director Ryan Thornell during a committee hearing on Tuesday .

“There’s not much to say right now in terms of what happened other than what you heard. Inmate Cramer, through the court system to us, it’s a very complex situation, but (

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