Senate discusses the implementation of GCTA Law

The Senate has gone through the actual implementation and sought the amendment of the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law after records showed that hundreds of inmates who committed heinous crimes have been released. The Senate questioned the Bureau of Corrections or BuCor’s move to set free high profile convicts such as the perpetrators of the Chiong sisters’ rape-slay case and ex-Calauan Mayor Antonio Sanchez who was supposedly up for release.

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