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FL Ends Early Release
Loaded on May 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1995, page 22
On December 9, 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles announced that the state was ending its gain time program. The program was instituted in 1987 by then Governor Bob Martinez (R) to comply with a federal court order designed to limit Floridas extreme prison overcrowding. Under the program prisoners received up …
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