The law was enacted by former President Benigno Aquino III, amending several parts of the Revised Penal Code. These include section 97, which tackles the good conduct time allowance for prisoners who behaved while in detention.
The director of the Bureau of Corrections, the chief of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and/or the jail warden can grant a GCTA. It cannot be revoked once granted, according to the law. However, the Supreme Court in June 25 favored a petition by inmates of New Bilibid Prison calling for the retroactive application of the measure. This allowed those who were convicted from way back 1990, like Sanchez, to benefit from the GCTA.
SC public information office chief Brian Keith Hosaka said the decision was based on the “fundamental doctrine in criminal law that penal laws when favorable and advantageous to the accused should be applied retroactively.”Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said around 200 persons deprived of liberty may be released per day with the retroactive implementation of the law.“Everyone imprisoned by final judgment before 2013 is entitled to a re-computation of GCTAs earned, if any,” Guevarra said.
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