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Keyword:heinous crimes heinous crime convicts back to jail
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AS THE GOVERNMENT CONDUCTS A REVIEW OF THE GCTA LAW WITH THE GOAL OF EXCLUDING HEINOUS CRIMES FROM THE COVERAGE, THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS (BUCOR) REVEALED THAT IT HAS ALREADY RELEASED 1,914 HEINOUS CRIMES CONVICTS BECAUSE IT APPLIED AT THE TIME AN INTERPRETATION THAT THE GCTA LAW COVERED ALL TYPES OF PRISONERS. (READ MORE ON THE DIFFERING LEGAL INTERPRETATION OF THIS ISSUE HERE)
CRIMINAL LAW PROFESSOR AND FORMER SUPREME COURT SPOKESPERSON TED TE ALSO EARLIER POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS ILLEGAL TO BRING BACK RELEASED CONVICTS IN AN EARLIER INTERVIEW WITH RAPPLER. (READ: IS IT LEGAL TO SEND BACK TO JAIL RELEASED HEINOUS CRIMES CONVICTS?)
“THAT CANNOT BE DONE BECAUSE THE LAW IS VERY CLEAR. REPUBLIC ACT 10592 IS VERY CLEAR THAT THOSE CHARGED AND CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES, ESCAPEES, HABITUAL DELINQUENTS AND RECIDIVISTS ARE NOT COVERED BY THE LAW,」 HE SAID DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN BEIJING, CHINA, WHEN TOLD ABOUT THE RELEASE OF NEARLY 2,000 PRISONERS CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES FOR GOOD CONDUCT.
BEIJING – INMATES CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES WHO WERE FREED UNDER THE GOOD CONDUCT TIME ALLOWANCE (GCTA) LAW SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO PRISON, PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN SALVADOR PANELO SAID YESTERDAY.
THIS IS HOW THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ) REACTED TO PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN SALVADOR PANELO’S STATEMENTS THAT INMATES CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES WHO WERE FREED UNDER THE GOOD CONDUCT TIME ALLOWANCE (GCTA) LAW SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO PRISON.
FREED INMATES WHO ARE CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO JAIL ACCORDING TO THE MALACANANG ON FRIDAY (AUG 30).
“THE GCTA THAT MAY SERVE TO SHORTEN A SENTENCE AND ENTITLE THE INMATE TO BE RELEASED EXTINGUISHES LIABILITY AND, EVEN IF APPLIED ERRONEOUSLY BUT IN GOOD FAITH TO UNQUALIFIED INMATES (E.G., THOSE SERVING TIME FOR HEINOUS CRIMES WHO UNDER THE LAW ARE NOT ENTITLED TO GCTA), CANNOT JUSTIFY SENDING BACK TO JAIL THOSE SET FREE,” TE, WHO IS A PROFESSOR ON CRIMINAL LAW, EXPLAINED.
NO WONDER THOUSANDS OF CRIMINALS INCLUDING 1,914 WHO WERE CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES HAVE WALKED OUT OF JAIL FREE SINCE THE LAW TOOK EFFECT IN 2013. THEY DID NOT NEED ANY PAROLE OR PRESIDENTIAL PARDON TO DO THAT AS THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO HAVE ALREADY SERVED OUT THEIR JAIL TERM EVEN IF THEY HAD BEEN IMPRISONED FOR LESS THAN HALF THEIR SENTENCE.
“WE INTEND TO GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW (TUESDAY) ARMED WITH POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO THAT GOOD CONDUCT LAW BY MAKING IT SPECIFIC THAT CONVICTS OF HEINOUS CRIMES ESPECIALLY THOSE SUCH AS MURDER, DRUG TRAFFICKING, KIDNAP-FOR-RANSOM AND OTHER HIGHLY DANGEROUS CRIMINALS CANNOT AVAIL OF THE PROGRAM, PERIOD,” ZUBIRI TOLD REPORTERS IN A TEXT MESSAGE.
IN WHAT IS PERHAPS THE BIGGEST CHANGE IN HIMACHAL PRADESH’S JAILS, 150 PRISONERS SERVING LIFE SENTENCES FOR HEINOUS CRIMES ARE BEING ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PREMISES EVERY DAY AND GO TO WORK AT PRIVATE FACTORIES AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS.
「WORSE, RECENT REPORTS HAVE SURFACED DETAILING HOW THOSE CONVICTED OF HEINOUS CRIMES ARE USING A 『LOOPHOLE』 OF THE LAW TO AVAIL OF TIME ALLOWANCES EVEN WHEN THE OFFENDERS WERE CHARGED WITH OTHER CRIMES WHILE STILL IN JAIL. IT SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTED THAT THIS IS NOT, AND NEVER HAS BEEN THE INTENTION OF RA 10592,」 THE SENATOR STRESSED.
WE OFTEN SEE COMMENTS IN RESPONSE TO NEWS REPORTS OF SERIOUS CRIMES INVOLVING FDW ABUSE CALLING FOR OFFENDERS TO BE CANED REPEATEDLY, JAILED FOR LIFE, OR EVEN EXECUTED. THE COMMENTS ARE OFTEN THE SAME REGARDLESS OF THE SEVERITY OF THE CRIME.
ONLY LAST FRIDAY, PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE』S CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL, SALVADOR PANELO, SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT THE LAW WAS “CATEGORICAL IN EXCLUDING … PERSONS CHARGED WITH HEINOUS CRIMES.”

 

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