Check the prison's math in Florida

1. Get the official document

Official name: unknown. We did not find the document's name in an official source. Ask the records office for "the official time computation" or "time sheet."

Usually the incarcerated person can ask the records office or their counselor for it with a written request. Families often cannot get it directly; the person can share their copy.

Official online lookup (some dates appear here): [FDC Inmate Population Information Search] (opens in new tab)

2. Which credits should appear

• Incentive gain-time (offenses on or after Oct 1, 1995): FDC may grant up to 10 days per month for working diligently, training, or other positive activities. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab) The rate in effect on the offense date applies for the whole sentence. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab)
• Older rates for incentive gain-time: up to 20 days a month for offenses before Jan 1, 1994, and up to 25 days (severity levels 1-7) or 20 days (levels 8-10) for offenses from Jan 1, 1994 to Sept 30, 1995. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab)
• Basic gain-time (10 days per month of sentence) applies only to offenses from July 1, 1978 through Dec 31, 1993. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab)
• Meritorious gain-time: 1 to 60 days for an outstanding deed, such as saving a life. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab)
• Education award: a one-time 60 days for earning a high school equivalency diploma or a vocational certificate. [Fla. Stat. §944.275 (gain-time)] (opens in new tab)

Full credit rules

3. Common-errors checklist

• Jail (pretrial) credit: days spent in county jail before sentencing are missing or miscounted. Compare with the jail booking record and the judgment.
• Sentence start date: the computation begins on the wrong day.
• Concurrent vs. consecutive: the judgment says one thing and the computation does the other.
• Multiple cases: credit applied to the wrong case, or a case missing. Rules on splitting credit between cases vary by state.
• Earned credits not posted: months of work, school or programs, or completed certificates, do not appear.
• Losses and restorations: credits taken without a finished disciplinary hearing, or restored credits never added back.
• Wrong law version: credit rules applied from a different date than the offense date.
• Revocation time: time on parole or supervision handled differently than the rules say.
• Detainers or holds: another case or agency may keep the person past the computed date (see detainers).
• Typos: sentence length, number of counts, or dates copied wrong from the judgment.

Have ready: the judgment, jail booking records, program certificates and disciplinary decisions.

4. If you find an error

• Write to the records office naming the exact error, with copies (never originals).
• If it is not fixed, use the agency's official grievance or dispute process.
• If the error is in the judgment itself (for example jail credit), the court may need to correct it. Talk to a lawyer or the public defender.

OutSooner explains the process; it does not prepare legal filings.

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