Florida’s Department of Corrections is plagued by a presently insurmountable crisis: gridlock.

Prisons are understaffed, underfunded, and overcrowded. Florida law requires every inmate to serve at least 85% of their sentence, no matter the amount of gain time — a type of time off for good behavior the FDOC awards. Compounded with outdated sentencing laws such as the “10, 20, Life” statutes calling for mandatory minimum sentences, every year, the courts are dumping significantly more inmates into the prison system than the FDOC can release.