Duterte to inmates freed due to GCTA: Surrender in 15 days or else...

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered prisoners who have been released because of good conduct credits under Republic Act 10592 to surrender and register themselves with the Bureau of Corrections in 15 days.

Duterte said such former inmates would be treated as fugitives from justice if they would not do so.

He said he wanted a recomputation of the good conduct time allowances given to the thousands of inmates who were released under the 2013 law on GCTA.

"I will give you 15 days, liberty. Provided you make yourself available anytime that you will be called for investigation, to have a recomputation," Duterte said.

"If you do not, then beginning at this hour, you are a fugitive from justice. You will be treated as a criminal. If i were you, mag-surrender na kayo," he added.

The President said he would decide in three days if he would raise a P1-million bounty for each of the heinous crimes convicts who had been released due to RA 10592.

"Rearrest for all," Duterte said at a news conference in Malacañang.

The Palace has said that 2013 law excluded recidivists, habitual delinquents, escapees and persons charged with heinous crimes from its coverage.

Data from the Bureau of Corrections showed that of the 22,049 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) released from 2014 to 2019 due to good conduct time allowance, 1,914 had been convicted of heinous crimes such as murder and rape.

Of those convicted of heinous crimes, 797 were sentenced for murder, 758 for rape, 274 for robbery with violence or intimidation, 48 for drug-related offenses, 29 for parricide, five for kidnapping with illegal detention, and three for destructive arson. —NB, GMA News