How an inmate’s second chance was yanked away after officials discovered 88-year sentencing mistake

BURLINGTON — By Rene Lima-Marin’s accounting, his first stretch in prison as a young man wasn’t easy, but now he’s doing harder time: At 37, his absence from a wife and two children — and the memory of a normal life — make re-incarceration weigh on him in a totally different way. Originally sentenced to 98 years for his role in a pair of 1998 video store robberies, he reclaimed his life after an error on his official paperwork released him in 2008 — decades early. He completed five spotless years of parole, rose through low-wage, felon-friendly jobs toward a union gig as a glazier, married the love of his life, nurtured two sons and bought a house in Aurora, in the same community where he...