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No...you get sent home. Let me give a concrete example here, direct from experience. Florida DOC mandates you must do 85% of your prison (not jail...all jails
by cubano 9y ago
No...you get sent home.
Let me give a concrete example here, direct from experience.
Florida DOC mandates you must do 85% of your prison (not jail...all jails have different gain time schemes just to make it really confusing) sentence, so that is roughly 5 days a month.
Lets say you score out to 22 months like I was many years ago...thats a total of 110 potential gain-time days off my sentence...great I think almost 4 months!
BUT...let's say I did 13 months in jail waiting for sentencing so I only have to do 9 more in prison.
In most prison systems, I would NOT be able to recover all my potential gain-time because the 13 months county-time did not count for my prison gain time, and perhaps I would only get 9*5 or 45 days gain-time against my sentence.
Get it?
- _acme 9y agoNo, that doesn't make any sense at all. What is 'gain time'? What does 'score out to' mean?
- hfsktr 9y agoI am guessing a bit but I am understanding 'gain time' to be accrued time. I think 'score out to' was 'sentenced to'. If I read it right they are saying (mostly) the time spent in jail does not accrue days off a sentence like the time spent in the prison would.
- cubano 9y agoThe State of Florida in 1998, in order to fight disparity in sentencing, created a "scoring system"[0] where every crime in Florida is given a number that corresponds to the number of months in prison that crime could carry. The scoring system is byzantine as all hell and I challenge anyone to figure it out.[1] "Scoring out" is simply a term used by Florida convicts to explain how much time they got among themselves I guess. Maybe it was inappropriate to use it here. Gain-time is a sentence reduction scheme where people get time off their total sentence for staying out of trouble. [0] http://macklawpa.com/criminal-defense/felony-score-sheet/ http://macklawpa.com/criminal-defense/felony-score-sheet/ [1] http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/sen_cpcm/cpc_manual.pdf http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/sen_cpcm/cpc_manual.pdf [edits]