MANILA, Philippines -- Leyte Representative Vicente Veloso believes that a prisoner has to be an "angel" to qualify for the law that shortens their prison time. "Good behavior is so generic that it requires more substantial definitions. I think it should be revisited," Veloso, chairman of the House committee on justice, said in an interview with ABS CBN News Channel. "You have to be an angel to qualify, even littering is already a ground to exclude you from enjoying that GCTA [Good Conduct Time Allowance]," he added. Veloso issued this remark after some 1,914 prisoners convicted of heinous crimes were freed from jail since 2014. READ: 1,914 heinous crime convicts free...
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