In GCTA mess, Congress should review the law and erect a penal system that works

AT last, after weeks of televised inquiry and wearisome grandstanding, some members of Congress have expressed interest in reviewing the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law, or RA 10575, to improve or even repeal it.

It has dawned on lawmakers that the mountain of problems triggered by the GCTA Law may not be merely the result of incompetent or crooked implementation by prison officials, but principally caused by defects in the law itself, not just the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for it.