c. Good Conduct Time Allowance (RA 10592)

Notes:

• Applicable only to convicts by final judgment
• What is punished is not the leaving of the penal institution, but the failure of the convict to give himself up.
• If the offender fails to give himself up, the offender shall suffer an increase of 1/5 of the time still remaining to be served under the original sentence, which will not exceed six months.
• Correlate with Art. 98 (Book One, RPC), as amended by RA No. 10592: a convict who does not leave the penal institution on such occasions is entitled to a deduction of 2/5 of the time still remaining to be served under the original sentence
• Mutiny – an organized and unlawful resistance to a superior officer.
• There is no mutiny if the prisoners disarmed the guards and escaped, because the guards are not their superior officers.

Updated: RA 10592 time allowances apply retroactively, notwithstanding a prospective-only implementing rule (Inmates of the New Bilibid Prison v. De Lima, G.R. No. 212719, 25 June 2019; citation subject to owner verification).