She had to leave her retirement benefits dangling else she wouldn't have been able to get him out of there. Before you go to your final retirement appointment you have to complete a long checklist and get a bunch of signatures that you have turned in your badge, weapons, access cards, patrol car, terminated computer access, settled your gov travel card account, turned in all your keys, etc etc. If she had actually gone through and completed all those steps she would have lost the ability to break him out of there in the first place.
She couldn't complete her retirement package before breaking him out. That's a no-go.
Now, it's possible she forged all that documentation and did process through HR behind the sheriff's back. Thinking she could secretly outprocess (with forged documents and signatures) but keeping her badge, gun, patrol car and access to the jail as usual. Who knows with this lady and this incompetent county? jmo