Tag: good conduct time allowance law

Guevarra instructs BuCor to implement dismissal of 3 BuCor officials over GCTA-for-sale scheme

(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has instructed the Bureau of Corrections to implement the Ombudsman’s dismissal of three of the bureau’s officials over the Good Conduct Time Allowance-for-sale scheme. According to Guevarra, he gave the instruction for the order against Ramoncito Roque, officer in charge of the BuCor’s inmates documents processing unit; Mabel Bansil; and Veronica Buño to be implemented “without prejudice to the resolution of any appeal that the respondents may take.” Guevarra said […]

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SC denies petition of Antonio Sanchez, others vs revised IRR of GCTA law

(Eagle  News)-The Supreme Court en banc has denied the petition of Antonio Sanchez and several others against the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law’s revised implementing rules and regulations that exclude convicts of heinous crimes and others from availing of the benefits of the law. In a resolution, the SC said it junked the petition for mandamus filed against Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and the Bureau of Corrections for the petitioners’ failure to pay docket and […]

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Senate approves measure for separate prison facilities for convicts of heinous crimes

(Eagle News) — The Senate has approved the creation of separate prison facilities for convicts of heinous crimes who were sentenced to life imprisonment, Senate President Tito Sotto said. According to Sotto, Senate Bill No. 1055 that aims to establish three “prison farms” on the islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, was approved on third and final reading on Monday, Dec. 16. Based on the approved measure co-authored by Sotto and Senators Richard Gordon and […]

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DOJ to submit sanitized list of heinous crimes convicts freed due to misapplication of expanded GCTA law on Sept. 30

(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice is expected to submit its sanitized list of heinous crimes convicts released earlier because of a misapplication of the expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance law, on Sept. 30. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the list, which shall serve as the bases for the re-arrest of the convicts, shall be submitted to the Department and the Interior and Local Government and the Philippine National Police. He said with the submission,  the […]

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DOJ: Panel created to verify records of PDL prior to release

(Eagle News)–The Oversight Committee on Corrections has created a panel to verify the records of each person deprived of liberty prior to their release. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said that while this was a “tedious process,” it is “called for under the circumstances.” He said the panel has met in the past days and “will meet again this afternoon with the relevant BuCor officers whose task is to justify each and every recommendation for release.” […]

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De Lima: Releasing “truly reformed” convicts of heinous crimes should not be considered injustice to victims

(Eagle News)–Releasing  “truly reformed” convicts of heinous crimes should not be considered an injustice against their victims. Senator Leila de Lima had this to say on Sunday, Sept. 22, as she expressed hope the new implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law were merely  “meant to be a temporary solution to prevent irreversible damage caused by the ‘GCTA-for-sale’ fiasco that hounded this administration.” She said the GCTA law, which reduces the […]

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PACC to suspend probe into GCTA mess following OP directive

(Eagle News)–The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission will suspend its probe into the Good Conduct Time Allowance mess. The PACC said this was after the Office the President itself ordered the suspension, with a probe into the controversy already being undertaken by the Ombudsman and the Senate. The PACC said  the investigation being conducted by the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation is also suspended. The Ombudsman has already suspended over 27 Bureau of […]

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DOJ: Number of surrenderees bloated due to inclusion of convicts released not on account of GCTA law

(Eagle News)–Over 2000 persons deprived of liberty have surrendered to authorities following the 15-day deadline imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte, a figure the Department of Justice said was bloated because it includes even those who turned themselves in even if they were not released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. In a press conference on Friday, Sept. 20, Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said the figure as of 5 a.m. today, Sept. 20, was 2009. […]

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DOJ now says President’s directive on re-arrest of GCTA-freed convicts who did not surrender within the deadline stands

(Eagle News)–The re-arrest of convicts released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law and who did not surrender within the deadline will continue. This is according to the Department of Justice itself, which earlier requested that the re-arrest be put on hold pending the release of a cleansed Bureau of Corrections list that would serve as the police guide in their operations. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete, Department of Justice spokesperson, said President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive […]

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Guevarra: No need to re-arrest Rolito Go, he should not have been in BuCor list of GCTA-freed convicts in first place

(Eagle News)–As far as Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra is concerned,  Rolito Go, who was convicted of the 1991 killing of a Dela Salle University student in a road rage incident in San Juan City, does not need to be re-arrested. According to Guevarra, Go, after all, has served his sentence in full after it had been commuted, and not only because of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Go was sentenced to reclusion perpetua or […]

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Rolito Go, who was freed under GCTA law, among those who did not surrender before 15-day deadline

  (Eagle News)–Rolito Go, who was freed under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, was among those who did not surrender before the 15-day deadline. Go was convicted of the 1991 killing of Dela Salle University engineering student Eldon Maguan in a road rage incident in San Juan City. This was confirmed by National Capital Region Police Office Chief Guillermo Eleazar, who said he has already deployed tracker teams to look for the 176 convicts […]

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DOJ says 1665 convicts released under GCTA law have surrendered so far; deadline looms

(Eagle News)–Over 1600 convicts released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law have so far surrendered to authorities, the Department of Justice said. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said the 1665 who are now in Bureau of Corrections custody is as of 8 p.m. today, over three hours before  the deadline for their surrender. It was President Rodrigo Duterte who gave the convicts released under the GCTA law 15 days to turn themselves in or be […]

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