New IRR could risk GCTA of qualified convicts

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'That is the burden that the implementors of the law would have to assume,' says Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete.

from GCTA coverage under RA 10592, but it added a new operational rule about how and when to grant the GCTAs.

In the case of convicted rapist and murderer Antonio Sanchez, the Bureau of Corrections has records of him stashing drugs in his jail cell and possessing prohibited prison items like an air-conditioning unit. "So therefore if a particular prisoner for example commits an offense, a grave offense, within a 2-year period, then in the operational guidelines you may have a basis to say that that particular prisoner, by virtue of his commission of an offense, forfeits the entire accrued time allowance," Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said in a news conference on Friday September 20.

"You have to understand that the lawmakers themselves were saying that there has to be some sort of graduations on the disallowances commensurate to the gravity of the offense, or the violations of prison rules and regulations, and so this particular scheme would allow for such leeway once we tackle the operational guidelines," Perete said.

 

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