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FL S0206
Bill
AI Summary
- Redefines the Criminal Punishment Code's purpose from punishment as the primary goal to establishing "dual purposes" of sentencing: punishing the offender and rehabilitating the offender to transition back to the community successfully
- Reduces the minimum percentage of a sentence that must be served from 85% to 65% through a new system of rehabilitation credits, replacing the former incentive gain-time framework
- Creates three categories of sentence reduction: outstanding deed gain-time (30-60 days per deed), good behavior time (10 days per month), and rehabilitation credits (up to 20 days per month for constructive activities like work, training, or education)
- Awards 60 additional days of rehabilitation credits for completion of each qualifying program, including high school equivalency diplomas, college degrees, vocational certificates, drug treatment, mental health treatment, life skills, and reentry programs, with 5 additional days for completing other approved programs or courses — all applied retroactively
- Provides that good behavior time may only be forfeited if not yet "vested," with vesting occurring 2 years after being granted, and grants an additional 2 days per month of good behavior time retroactively to prisoners serving sentences for drug offenses under ss. 893.13 and 893.135
Legislative Description
Criminal Rehabilitation
Last Action
Died in Criminal Justice
5/5/2023
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