1.

Abreaction – intense emotional

feelings.
2. Admission Summary – it is a
written compilation made by the
staff regarding their findings on the
prisoner.
3. Affliction – distress of mind or
body; that which causes continuing
anguish or suffering.
4. Bail – monetary amount for or
condition of pre-trial release from
custody of law. Or a money
payment in return for which a
defendant is given freedom pending
trial or appeal.
5. Baroning – a process by which a
prison inmate obtains wealth,
influence and power by means of
selling tobacco.
6. Benefit of Clergy – from the 13th
to 19th centuries, clemency shown
to clergy guilty of crimes and
extended eventually to any offender
who could read.
7. Bifurcated Process – the
separation of the guilt determination
process from the sentence
determination process in the
criminal court system.
8. Big School – slang for
penitentiary.
9. Casework – in correctional work
includes the professional services
rendered by professionally trained
personnel in the description and
social treatment of offenders.
10. Close Confinement – for those
incorrigible prisoners when lighter
punishment has been proven to be
ineffectual the use of bartolina or
solitary confinement is justified
when foreseen danger to the convict
or others apparent.

11. Compurgation – an early

practice whereby the accused swears
an oath of innocence backed-up by
a group of oath helpers who would
attest to his character and claim of
innocence.
12. Contagion – a condition in
which prison inmates kept together
without any attempt to divide them
the involvement with crime, would
transmit to each other means and
techniques to commit further crimes
once outside of prison.
13. Cummulative Case Summary –
starts from the admission report of
individual inmates to his behavior
and response to treatment programs
and serves as the basis in granting
parole.
14. Diversification – penal system’s
implementation of segregation.
15. Flat Term – prison term which
there is no discretionary release date.
Similar to definite sentence.

16. Furlough – temporary release

from jail or prison. Typically for a
day, weekend, or holiday or for
special visits such as a job test or
interview or family crises, often part
of a prerelease program.
17. Gate Fever – the feeling of an
immediate release from the
penitentiary and the feeling of
uncertainty in the part of the suppose
parolee at the ebb of his release to
the community.
18. Golden Age of Penology – the
period covering 1870 to 1880 was
regarded as Golden Age of
Penology.
The highlights of the said period
were as follows:
I- the organization of the National
Prison Association last 1870, now
referred to as American Correctional
Association; the International Prison
Congress was held in 1872.
II- It serves as a forum attended by
representatives from different
countries wherein
improvement to prison systems were
tackled in the assemble every 5
years; In 1876 the Elmira
Reformatory was established which
was considered the forerunner in
modern penology; and in Indiana,
Massachusetts USA the first
separate was established.
19. Greyhound Operations – a
method in searching the prisoner for
possession of contrabands inside the
prisoner cells and compound.
20. Indefinite Sentence – is a
sentence to prison in which release
date is under the discretionary
control of a release board.

21. Indeterminate Sentence – a

sentence of imprisonment for the
maximum period define by law
subject to the termination by the
parole board at anytime after service
of the minimum period. It is one
with minimum and maximum
periods of imprisonment.
22. Indictment – formal charging of
a defendant by a grand jury.
23. Judean Christian Theory –
emphasized that punishment has a
redemptive purpose.
24. Medium Supervision – given to
probationer’s needing moderate
attention and requiring twice a
month office reporting. Use yellow
plan card tab.
25. Minimum Supervision –
probationer’s needing minimal
attention and requiring not more
than once a month office reporting.
Use green plan card.

26. Pecuniary Liabilities – it consists

of the reparation of the damage
caused, indemnification of the
consequential damages, fine and
cost of proceedings; imposed upon
persons who are criminally liable.
27. Penal Management - Refers to
the manner or practice of managing
or controlling places of confinement
as in jails or prisons.
28. PENOLOGY - the study of
punishment for crime or of criminal
offenders. It includes the study of
control and prevention of crime
through punishment of criminal
offenders.
29. Proselytizing – to convert or
induce another to change his
religious belief, sect or the like to
another.
30. RA 10575 – the New BUCOR
Act of 2013
31. RA 6981 – Witness Protection
Program Act
32. RA 7438 – Defines the rights of
the accused under custodial
investigation.
33. RA 7659 – Act re-imposing the
death penalty.
34. Recognizance – is a legal device
deeply embedded in English Law
originated as measures of
preventive justice and as such it
consist obliging persons. It is a
mechanism whereby a person
accused of crime may be released on
his own strength pending trial of his
case or on the assurance of a
reputable person in the community
that he will appear if called during
the trial to testify.
35. Regression – refers to the
process that entails a simplification
of behavior which may contribute
harm inflicted upon oneself or
render one vulnerable to others.

36. Restorative Justice – refers to

humanistic and non-punitive means
to restore social harmony and
correct wrongful acts.
37. Retaliatory Retribution – refers
to the intentional infliction of an
appropriate amount of suffering on
a competent individual who has
breached some code.
38. Split Sentence Law – mandated
that offenders as punishment would
have serve a portion of their
sentence in institutions and thereby
released to undergo probation.
39. CONVICTION – is the
judgment of a court based on the
verdict of a judicial officer or judge,
that the accused is guilty of the
offense in which he/she was charge.
40. SENTENCE – is the penalty
imposed by the court upon a person
convicted of a crime.

41. ACQUITTAL – is a judgment of

the court based on the verdict or
decision of the judge, that the
defendant is not guilty of the charge
against him.
42. PUNISHMENT – it is the
redress that the state takes against an
offender where it signifies pain
suffering, or curtailment of its
freedom.
43. PENALTY – is the suffering that
is inflicted by the state for the
transgression of law
44. CORRECTION defined:A
branch of the Criminal Justice
System concerned with the custody,
supervision and rehabilitation of
criminal offenders.
45. GAOLS - (Jails) – pretrial
detention facilities operated by
English Sheriff.

46. Galleys – long, low, narrow,

single decked ships propelled by
sails, usually rowed by criminals. A
type of ship used for transportation
of criminals in the 16th century.
47. Hulks – decrepit transport,
former warships used to house
prisoners in the 18th and 19th
century. These were abandoned
warships converted into prisons as
means of relieving congestion of
prisoners. They were also called
“floating hells
48. Mittimus – is a warrant issued
by a court directing the jail or prison
authorities to receive the convicted
offender for the service of sentence
imposed therein or for detention
49. Security – It involves safety
measures to maintain the orderliness
and discipline with in the jail or
prison.
50. Prison Discipline – is the state of
good order and behavior. It includes
maintenance of good standards of
works, sanitation, safety, education,
health and recreation. It aims at self-
reliance, self control, self respect
and self discipline.
51. Preventive Discipline – is the
prompt correction of minor
deviations committed by prisoners
before they become serious
violations.
52. Control – It involves supervision
of prisoners to ensure punctual and
orderly movement from one place
work program or assignment to
another.
53. Custody – is the guarding or
penal safekeeping, it involves
security measures to insure security
and control with in the prison. The
Prison Custodial Division carries it
out.
54. Good Conduct Time Allowance
(GCTA) Good conduct time
allowance is a privilege granted to a
prisoner that shall entitle him to a
deduction of his term of
imprisonment.
55. Under Art.97, RPC, as Amended
by RA 10575, the good conduct of
any prisoner in any penal institution
shall entitle him to the following
deduction from the period of his
sentence:
A. During the first two years of his
imprisonment, he shall be allowed a
deduction of 20 days for each
month of good behavior.
B. During the third to the fifth years
of his imprisonment, he shall be
allowed a deduction of 23 days each
month of good behavior.
C. During the following years until
the tenth years of his imprisonment,
he shall be
allowed a deduction of 25 days each
month of good behavior.
D. During the eleventh and the
successive years of his
imprisonment, he shall be allowed a
deduction of 30 days each month of
good behavior.
E. At any time during the period of
imprisonment, he shall be allowed
another deduction of fifteen days, in
addition to numbers one to four
hereof, for each month of study,
teaching or monitoring service time
rendered

56. Who grants good conduct time

allowance? Whenever lawfully
justified, the Director of the Bureau
of Corrections, the Chief of the
BJMP and/or Warden of provincial,
district, municipal or city jail shall
grant allowances for good conduct.
Such allowances once granted shall
not be revoked.