Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Thursday (Sept. 17) said the revised uniform manual of the Expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law is already done.
President Rodrigo Duterte may have granted absolute pardon to former United States Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton but it does not erase murder, according to Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque deplored on Wednesday the early release of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton from imprisonment.
Ombudsman Samuel Martires will decide if charges will be filed against former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Nicanor Faeldon over the anomalous implementation of the expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law.
The National Bureau of Investigation has started an investigation on threats against Senator Richard Gordon and his family as a result of his inquiry on ninja cops and anomalies in the implementation of the Good Conduct Time Allowance, the bureau top official said.
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III has defended the Senate from allegations that its investigation into the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) controversy has become a political one by branching into the issue of so called “ninja cops.”
President Rodrigo Duterte’s trust and approval ratings suffered significant decreases in the third quarter amid controversies involving the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and so called “ninja cops.”
Former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile: Released prisoners under Good Conduct Time Allowance are now subject to hunting .
As the September 19 deadline nears, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra reminded law enforcement authorities not take the President’s “dead or alive remark literally.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra’s marching orders to newly appointed Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag has been to clean up the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) mess.
President Rodrigo Duterte is offering P1 million reward to anyone who can capture a heinous crime inmate erroneously released through the Good Conduct Time Allowance law after his deadline lapses.
Senator Leila De Lima has proposed merging the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and provincial jail services to institute reforms in the country’s prison system.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) will deploy 121 tracker teams nationwide to lead the hunting down of the convicts released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law.
27 officials Bureau of Corrections have been suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman over the alleged anomalies involving the release of heinous crimes convicts under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) intends to look into irregularities taking place at the Correctional Institute for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong CIty including allegations that officials have been engaged in nepotism, assured Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo proposes to scrap the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law that allows deductions from sentences of persons for good behavior.
Senator Richard Gordon believes the family of convicted rapist and murderer Antonio Sanchez shelled out money to secure his early release through the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law.
Convicted heinous crime inmates who wrongly benefitted from the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) provision of Republic Act No. 10592 can’t be simply rearrested by authorities, Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said.
Bribing Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officials to secure an inmate’s early release is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to the corruption that’s rampant within the agency, Senator Panfilo Lacson said.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra doesn’t want anyone from the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to head it.
Naniniwala si Senador Richard Gordon na maganda sana ang Good Conduct Time Allowance kung hindi naisama sa mga napalaya ang mga preso na nasangkot sa henious crime.
Senator Leila De Lima has slammed Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo for blaming the Aquino administration for the controversy caused by the release of several heinous crime convicts under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law.
Convicts of heinous crimes freed because of the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law may be shot dead if they don’t heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to surrender within 15 days, Senator Bong Go warned Wednesday (September 4).
ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap on Wednesday said he supports the firing of Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon, reminding officials that no one is above the law.
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