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(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto on Wednesday, Sept. 4, said he received an “A-1” intelligence report “millions” of pesos were being paid for the release of some convicts under the Good Credit Time Allowance Law in the Bureau of Corrections. Sotto did not say who gave him the information, but said the person was very credible. Neither did Sotto say who exactly received the supposed payoffs, only noting that there were go-betweens. He added the […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo believes failure to pay court-ordered damages to the kin of a victim will lengthen the jail time of a convict. Panelo shared his legal opinion in an interview over CNN Philippines on Wednesday, Sept. 4, a day after Elvira Sanchez, wife of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez, said her family had no intention of paying the P12.67 million in damages to the families of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez. […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, Sept. 4, urged her fellow lawmakers not to repeal Republic Act No. 10592 even with the release of convicts of heinous crimes, including those convicted for the rape-slay of the Chiong sisters, under its retroactive application. “Let not the legitimacy and the well-settled wisdom of the law be clouded or demolished by its misapplication, abuses in enforcement or wrongdoings on the part of the designated implementors of the […]
(Eagle News)–The family of Antonio Sanchez will not pay the P12.67 million awarded by the court to the families of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, insisting the former Calauan, Laguna mayor was innocent. This was revealed by Elvira Sanchez, the wife of the former mayor who was convicted of killing and raping Sarmenta and of killing her friend Allan Gomez in the 1990s, during the Senate hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, […]
(Eagle News)–Three senators are moving to repeal in its entirety the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, following the release under the same of convicts of heinous crimes. In filing Senate Bill No. 993 that seeks to repeal the amendments in Articles 29, 94, 97, 98 and 99 of the Revised Penal Code as contained under the GCTA law or Republic Act 10592, Senate President Tito Sotto and Senators Panfilo Lacson and Richard Gordon noted that […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri on Wednesday, Sept. 4, called for the establishment of “Alcatraz-like prisons” for high-risk prisoners. Zubiri made the pitch for “heinous crime penitentiaries” under his Senate Bill No. 1004, as the Senate blue ribbon and justice committees probed the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. There are now proposals to amend the law for it to explicitly exclude convicts of heinous crimes, following outrage […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday, Sept. 4, urged Bureau of Corrections Director-General Nicanor Faeldon to take a leave of absence pending the probe into the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law. In a statement, Pacquiao said that while he believes in the “integrity and honesty” of Faeldon, the raging controversy demands his “full and undivided attention.” Pacquiao added that President Rodrigo Duterte was “unnecessarily dragged into this […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon believes there is legal basis to order the re-arrest of convicts of heinous crimes who have been released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Drilon said “it was clearly established” after all that the procedure for the release of 1914 convicts, including three convicted of the rape-slay of the Chiong sisters, was “not followed.” He said the good conduct of convicts was wrongly computed as none of their […]
(Eagle News)–The violations committed by former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez were not reflected in his file folder at the Bureau of Corrections. This was acknowledged by BuCor Chief Nicanor Faeldon, when he faced senators on the second hearing into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Faeldon made the admission under questioning by Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, who had noted Sanchez had kept an airconditioned “kubol” in the New Bilibid Prison, which is prohibited. […]
Gives four other recommendations (Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday, Sept. 2, wants a standalone provision in Republic Act No. 10592 that says who exactly cannot benefit from the measure. This was one of the recommendations Guevarra gave senators during the Senate hearing the GCTA law, should lawmakers, he said, decide to amend the measure to avoid any legal loopholes. “Provisions of this law should be crafter better, in a better way. The intent […]
(Eagle News)–Three others convicted for the rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta and the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in 1993 are already deceased. According to Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon, who faced the Senate hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Monday, Sept. 2, George Medialdea, Rogelio Corcolon and Zoilo Ama died in prison. Faeldon could not say, however, the cause of their deaths. Apart from Medialdea, Corcolon and Ama, former […]
(Eagle News)–Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon on Monday, Sept. 2, denied he had signed the release order for former Calauan, Laguna Antonio Sanchez. Sanchez was convicted of the rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta, and of the murder of her friend Allan Gomez. In the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance before the Senate, Faeldon said he merely signed a memorandum that jumpstarts the process of the release. The memorandum he signed he […]
