Today All Inmates Serve a Minimum of 85%

Despite recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Florida Department of Corrections no longer releases inmates early to control overcrowding. A list of recent highlights concerning early releases:

• 1983: Parole abolished
• 2/5/87: Administrative Gain Time Statute enacted
• 7/1/88: Administrative Gain Time repealed
• 1/18/93: Provisional Credits repealed and Emergency Gain Time repealed
• 1995: Basic Gain Time repealed (1/3 off of sentence at beginning of time served)
• 1995: Life is Life in prison
• 1995: All inmates convicted of felonies on or after 10/1/95 shall serve a minimum of 85% sentence received.
• 1995: Inmates can only accumulate Incentive Gain Time to reduce their sentence by 15%.

• If an inmate gets a disciplinary report, he/she can be denied Incentive Gain Time up to six months.
• Inmates in Florida prisons are required to work to help defray the cost of running prisons.