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(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has slammed the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, which has asked her to explain the implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. In a short statement, De Lima, who, together with then-Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, crafted the IRR in 2014 when she was justice secretary, said in the first place, she does “not recognize the PACC’s jurisdiction or authority over me, a sitting Senator.” “I say to them: […]
Panel to seek for deadline extension to complete review of guidelines for GCTA accreditation (Eagle News)–The joint Department of Justice and Department of the Interior and Local Government panel tasked to review the implementing rules and regulations of RA 10592 or the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law has completed its draft IRR, but will ask for extension to review the guidelines on GCTA accreditation. This is according to Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete, who said the […]
(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto believes the three Bureau of Corrections officials who were supposed to testify to corruption in the bureau in the Senate on Thursday, Sept. 12, backed out at the last minute for fear they would be killed. Sotto noted the three backed out right after the killing of prison guard Edgardo Ferrer on the day of the hearing. According to Sotto, based on information he received, Ferrer, the father of a […]
(Eagle News)–Over 300 convicts who were released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law have surrendered, based on Philippine National Police records. The PNP said of the 353 convicts, 115 were convicted of murder, 108 of rape, 8 of robbery with rape, 2 of murder and robbery, 11 of murder and frustrated murder, 2 of attempted rape with homicide, 32 of robbery with homicide, 16 of drug-related charges, and 9 of parricide. Of the total […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Thursday, Sept. 12, urged his colleagues to allow Senator Leila de Lima, who is detained on drug-related charges, to attend the Senate hearing on the problems in the Bureau of Corrections so she can defend herself. De Lima, after all, he said, was being used as a “scapegoat in the scandal that has blown up” in the “face” of the BuCor. “Hindi si Sen. De Lima ang nagtangkang pakawalan si […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 12, said he will not go after Bureau of Corrections officials who released convicts under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law “in good faith.” Duterte issued the remark as the Ombudsman continues its probe into the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the law, suspending over 27 BuCor officials in the process. The officials included Ramoncito Roque, chief of the BuCor documents and records section, and Senior […]
https://youtu.be/lDrEC_nw_fU (Eagle News) — Umabot na sa 281 na convicted inmates na napalaya sa pamamagitan ng Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) ang kusang loob na sumuko sa iba’t ibang tanggapan ng Philippine National Police sa buong bansa. Ayon kay PNP Spokesperson BGen.Bernard Banac, 47 sa mga sumuko ang na-i-turn over na nila sa Bureau of Corrections. Muli namang umapela ang PNP sa iba pang napalayang convicts na kusang loob nang sumuko, bago matapos ang 15 […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday, Sept. 12, slammed several of her colleagues for allegedly steering the Senate joint panel hearing that saw two resource persons tag her in corruption in the Bureau of Corrections when she was justice secretary. In a statement issued from Camp Crame, where she is detained for drug-related charges, De Lima in particular called out Senators Richard Gordon, Francis Tolentino and Ping Lacson, who she said were “practically the […]
(Eagle News)–The suspended chief of the Bureau of Corrections documents and records section on Thursday, Sept. 12, denied he knew anything about Janet Lim Napoles being included in the BuCor list of convicts to be released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. “Wala po akong impormasyon, Your Honor,” Ramoncito Roque said under questioning by Senator Richard Gordon. Gordon noted that the crime supposedly committed by Napoles, who was convicted of graft and corruption in […]
(Eagle News)–Officials of the Aquino administration should not be blamed for the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law or Republic Act No. 10592. This was according to now-Senator Leila de Lima and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who issued separate statements after the Ombudsman asked them to explain why the GCTA law’s implementing rules and regulations they crafted in 2014 excluded some categories of inmates who could not […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will not be appointing sacked Bureau of Corrections director-general Nicanor Faeldon to a new government post. In fact, President Duterte said on Tuesday, Sept. 10, that Faeldon has already been hired by a private corporation. The President made the statement following speculations he would give Faeldon another appointment. Prior to his stint as BuCor chief, Faeldon was Customs chief until he resigned following the discovery of P6.8-billion worth of shabu smuggled […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 10, welcomed the suspension of 27 Bureau of Corrections officials over the Good Conduct Time Allowance law mess. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the remark in a press conference as he reiterated the Palace’s stand that “heads will roll” following the release of some convicts of heinous crimes, and the near-release of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez under the law. Sanchez was convicted of the rape and murder […]
