Jeffrey Raske v. Bob Martinez, Governor, State of Florida, and Richard Dugger, Secretary, Department of Corrections

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Under Florida law, a prisoner who behaves well and diligently performs assigned work can reduce his term of incarceration by earning “gain time.” In the district court, petitioner Jeffrey Raske, an inmate in the Florida prison system, sought a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that a 1983 Florida statute which altered the amount and calculation of gain time constituted an unconstitutional ex post facto law as applied to prisoners such as himself who were convicted of offenses that occurred prior to the statute’s passage. See U.S. Const, art. I, § 10, cl. 1 (“No State…