There are now over a thousand convicts who surrendered following their release because of good conduct time allowance (GCTA), said Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete on Thursday.
Perete said there are 1,025 surrenderers based on the latest figures he received at 2 p.m., Wednesday.
After the September 19 deadline for their surrender ends, Perete said the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) will receive an updated list.
“The list will contain a number of details of those PDLs prematurely released via GCTA, their offense, their last known address and also their picture to minimize mistaken identity in the course of the arrest,” the Department of Justice (DoJ) spokesman said.
“The name of the surrenderers will not be included in the updated list,” he added.
Earlier, Duterte imposed a September 19 surrender deadline on 1,914 convicts who were released because of GCTA.
The President made the move in response to concerns that many of the freed convicts were unqualified to benefit from Republic Act 10592 which increased the GCTA of inmates and allowed their much earlier release.
“I will just set the timeline and then P1 million prize is available to those who can capture them dead or alive, but maybe dead will be a better option,” Duterte said just last Tuesday.
“I will pay you smiling. Ibalik ko ‘yan sa preso, makikain pa ‘yan,” he said.
