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Parole in Florida has was gradually phased out starting in October 1, 1983. Anyone who was sentenced for a crime committed on or after that date could at first choose whether to be "parole eligible" or be sentenced under Florida's new sentencing guidelines. Capital crimes (first degree murder & sexual battery on a child less than 12) were exempt from this new law and thus those defendants continued to be parole eligible for a while. The sentencing guidelines were amended somethimes drastically in 1988, 1994, 1995, and 1998 and thus parole became abolished.
Now inmates in the Florida Department of Corrections must serve at least 87% or their sentences in all cases.
