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FL Enacts More Anti-Prisoner Laws
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 19
On June 14, 1995, several laws affecting prisoners were passed into law without the signature of Governor Lawton Chiles. Under this legislation prisoners convicted after October 1, 1995, must serve at least 85% of their sentences in prison. Other laws will expand the prison system's "legal" population capacity and impose …
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