The good conduct time allowance (GCTA)
law is now being scrutinized by the Office of the Ombudsman and has decided to
zero in on the personalities that drafted the Implementing Rules and
regulations of RA 10592.
Ombudsman has asked detained Sen.
Leila de Lima and former interior secretary Mar Roxas to clarify the
implementing rules and regulations (IRR) they drafted for the early release of
prisoners based on good conduct credits.
Under the said law, some 2,000 heinous
crime convicts have been released since it was enacted in 2013, has spawned
inquiries by the Ombudsman and the Senate following reports it might
benefit high profile felony convicted of heinous crimes. Here is where former
Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez who has been convicted in the 1990s.
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| GCTA IRR drafter - Mar Roxas and Leila De Lima (photo credit to owner) |
The said law expanded the computation
of GCTA to detention time exempts recidivists, habitual delinquents, escapees
and persons charged with heinous crimes, Ombudsman Samuel Martires noted in a
Sept. 6 letter to Roxas and De Lima, a former justice secretary.
As per the IRR, however it only disqualifies
recidivists, those who have been "convicted previously twice or more... of
any crime," and those who failed to surrender before a court after being
summoned, said Martires.
The Ombudsman has requested De Lima and Roxas to
submit within 3 days a written explanation on "why the foregoing provision
in the IRR does not contain the same disqualifications as enumerated in the
last paragraph of Article 29 of the Revised Penal Code."
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