SOME inmates of the New Bilibid Prison have asked the Supreme Court to declare as illegal the revised implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 10592, or the “Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law,” for being “disadvantageous” to prisoners.

They asked the high court to order the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to recompute with dispatch the time allowances for prisoners and release them upon proof that they have fully served their sentence.

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