The joint committee is set to finish on Sept. 12 its review of the implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law for inmates, the Department of Justice said.
DoJ spokesman and Undersecretary Markk Perete said the committee started the review last Friday.
“The joint committee has until Sept. 12 within which to submit their recommendations to the Secretary of Justice and the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government,” Perete said.
The DoJ spokesman said that DoJ Undersecretary Deo Marco, who chairs the joint committee, presided over the first meeting.
“Bureau of Corrections Director General Nicanor Faeldon and officials from the Board of Jail Management and Penology, Board of Pardons and Parole, and Parole and Probation Administration, among others, attended the initial meeting,” he said.
“They discussed and outlined the general issues which they need to tackle in the next nine days,” Perete disclosed.
The joint committee held the meeting a day after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano issued Joint Department Order No. 001 creating the panel.
The committee was tasked to review the IRR of Republic Act 10592, the law which was passed in 2013 and amended provisions of the Revised Penal Code to increase of GCTAs of inmates and allow their much earlier release. (Jeffrey Damicog)
