Hours after President Rodrigo Duterte told freed convicts to surrender, a former inmate who was released through the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law surrendered to police in Bogo City on Wednesday.
According to Police Col. Roderick Mariano, chief of Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO), Jesus Ranoco Negro Jr. voluntarily surrendered to Bogo City Police Station at 10 p.m. on Wednesday night, September 4.
Negro, 50, a resident of Barangay Dakit in Bogo City, was convicted of 8 counts for murder and frustrated murder and was already serving 30 years in prison at the Bureau of Corrections at the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa City.
He was released last August 8, 2018.
According to Mariano, he was the first freed convict to surrender in Cebu after the announcement of Duterte.
Duterte has ordered the 1,914 heinous crimes convicts freed over the years of implementation of the law cutting down their prison time due to their good conduct to surrender to authorities.
Duterte told the freed convicts to “surrender and have yourself registered in [the Bureau of Corrections] in 15 days.”
The president said they are given 15 days of liberty provided that they make themselves available for recomputation of their GCTA and for investigation for corruption, or else they would be treated as fugitive.
According to data of the Bureau of Corrections, there have been more than 22,000 persons deprived of liberty whose GCTA were granted and whose sentences were shortened.
Of these, 1,914 inmates were sent to imprisonment for committing heinous crime.
