Around 46,000 detainees have been disqualified for reduced jail time under the revised rules on Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA), according to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).

or the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. The GCTA became controversial when former Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez, convicted for the murder of University of the Philippines-Los Baños ...

Persons convicted of heinous crimes are entitled to benefit from the law that shortens the prison terms of inmates through the good conduct time allowance (GCTA), the Supreme Court (SC ...