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56-hundred inmates sentenced to life before 1994 are eligible for parole every two years.

The reason: they were sentenced before life meant life in Florida. The parole hearings make it hard for families of the victims to rest easy. State Senator Greg Evers wants to change the hearings from every two years to seven years to give the families a little more breathing room.

“They are constantly living under the cloud that the perpetrator will be allowed out of prison. SO its every two years they have to go through this. So why do we allow them to re-victimize the victim to start with,” said Evers.

The bill was scheduled for a Senate hearing Thursday, but it was temporarily passed to give Evers time to work out some glitches with the House sponsor.