There are over 2000 Florida prisoners who were due to be released by the Florida Parole Commission. Over 800 of them, all over 50 years old, had parole dates that were cancelled under new inapplicable laws just before going home.
There are approximately two thousand (2000) parole eligible people still in prison in Florida under the pre-1983 parole system.
Over eight hundred (800) of them have had their parole-release dates suspended by the capricious actions of the Parole Commission several weeks, some even days, before their PPRD.
The Commission uses the same information used to suspend a parole eligible prisoner's date that was used in setting that date.
It is a well established fact that parole eligible prisoners suffer a more stringent and restrictive form of imprisonment than the majority of prisoners serving time in FDOC.
Letters that have been sent to you concerning parole eligible prisoners have been turned over to the Parole Commission for response. By doing so, the families, friends, loved ones, attorneys of parole eligible prisoners, religious organizations, and members of the voting community have surmised that your campaign promise to "help the older prisoners that are parole eligible obtain release" was nothing more than an "Empty Promise" and "Rhetoric" to amass votes to be elected.
Several years ago, the "Parole Elimination Network" initiated a workable solution that would send these parole eligible prisoners home to their families, and also save several million dollars of the state budget.
Of course the Parole Commission lobbied against this measure because they realized the writing on the wall: That if there was only one class of prisoners in the FDOC, they would be out of a job.
Governor Bush, it is time to rid the State of Florida of the abject failure of the Parole Commission and initiate the "Pen" proposal as written.
As a resident-voter in the state of Florida, and as a citizen of the United States of America, I believe it is time for truth and representation by those we elect within this state and nation!
