10-20-Life

English

Etymology

From the facts that, under this statute, (during the commission of certain felonies):

• Producing a firearm carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence;
• Firing a firearm carries a mandatory 20-year prison sentence;
• Hitting someone with a firearm carries a mandatory 25-year to life prison sentence.

Proper noun

10-20-Life

1. (US, law) Florida Statute 775.087
   • 2018 February 19, Heather Schoenfeld, Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (Chicago Series in Law and Society)‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:

     For example, when I asked the lobbyist for the Florida Sheriffs Association about the FSA's rationale for supporting 10-20-life, he responded that offenders were "getting too much gain-time and ... it just wasn't right."