The little-known (GCTA) Good Conduct Time Allowance was an embryo in the Revised

Penal Code of December 1930, Chapter 2 which already talked of "partial extinction of
criminal liability," including conditional pardon, commutation of sentence, and good conduct
allowances. It stated that legislation for good conduct allowances started with the Senate Bill
3064 (2012) and House Bill 419 (2013), ending with Republic Act 10592 or the Good
Conduct Time Allowance law signed by Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2013. The GCTA
amended several articles under the Revised Penal Code, including Article 97, which lays out
the allowance for good conduct is for persons deprived of liberty (PDL's).

This implementing rules and regulations of RA 10592, authored by the late Senator
Mirriam Santiago, crafted and issued by former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima and former
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, however, supposedly included inmates convicted of heinous
crimes as qualified to avail the benefits of the law. On the other hand the author of the
controversial good conduct time allowance law got an expletive-ridden rebuke from a
Cabinet Member for crafting a supposedly flawed law.

The GCTA law is now faulted for premature release of 1,914 prisoners, more of them
convicted for heinous crimes which is no exception. The Office of The Ombudsman on the
other hand, is investigating Dela Rosa and other former BuCor chiefs in connection with the
release of heinous crime convicts.

"Dela Rosa has admitted releasing 120 heinous crime convicts during his time, but the
President has ordered them back to prison and their GCTA recomputed and more than 350
prisoners have already surrendered to various police units and precincts nationwide,"
(Philippine National Police, 2019).

The GCTA law only allows for a reduction of sentences of Person deprived of Liberty,
depending on how well they abide by rules and regulations inside" any penal institution,
rehabilitation, or detention on any local jail. But according to the revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations (IRR) that the prisoners disqualified under RA 10592, such as heinous crime
convicts and who were convicted after the law became effective in 2013, shall not be entitled
to any type of good conduct time allowance. (3rd paragraph, Section 1, Rule XIII)

The debate has now focused on whether this law should be revise or unconstitutional.
Because as it is reviewed, there is anomalies happened between the convicts and the people in
charge (Locsin Jr, 2019).

It affects the convicts complainants before because there is this fear in them that maybe if
the convicts will be release earlier than their given duration of imprisonment the convicts can
take their revenge to them especially the high profile convicts like former-mayor Sanchez.
 As this contraversy aired we must think that this law must be remove and just stick to the
difference of duration of the imprisonment based on the convict violation because the
concerns on this law have been changed, the one who is benefiting on this law is the powerful
and rich inmates. They abused the power of this law which is supposedly for the chances to
the ones who is really worthy for the grant of this law. There's still the advantages of this law
which is the law main goals but we must open our eyes that this law had been used for fraud
and this must be stop, so in our opinion they must clear up the the GCTA law because the law
doesn't fits to this kind of justice system on the Philippines.