CUSTODY, SECURITY AND
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CONTROL, EMERGENCY PLANS,
MOVEMENT AND TRANSFER OF
PRISONER AND DETAINEES
 The overall concept of jail security operations
encompasses both prevention and rehabilitation.
 These two efforts are inseparable as neither can be
accomplished without the other.
 Jail security is necessary to safeguard the lives of
people residing within the vicinity, those managing
the jails, and inmates whose lives are to be
rehabilitated to become constructive members of
society.
AIMS OF INSTITUTIONAL SECURITY
1. Prevention of escapes
2. Control of contraband
3. Maintence of good order
SECURITY
 It involves safety measures to maintain the
orderliness and discipline with the jail or prison.
CUSTODY
 defined as the guarding or penal safekeeping.
 It involves security measures, locking and counting
routines, procedures for searching prisoners and their
living quarters, and prevention of contraband.
CONTROL
 It involves supervision of prisoners to ensure
punctual and orderly movement from one place work
program or assignment to another.
 it involves systematic measures taken in ensuring that
the movement of inmates are in accordance with
standing policies, rules and regulations granted by the
court, and authorities.
PRISON DISCIPLINE
 is a continuing state of good order and behavior.
includes the maintenance of good standards of work,
sanitation, safety, education, personal health and
recreation.
 The main objective of prison discipline is to inculcate
habits, attitudes and values that will make the
prisoners a peaceful and useful member of society
upon his release.
PRISON PREVENTIVE DISCIPLINE
 It involves prompt correction of minor deviations
before they become serious violations, which may be
dealt with a reprimand or warning and is used when
the deviation is:
- Trivial;
- due to ignorance or lack of understanding;
- result of careless of faulty habits
SECURITY AND CONTROL
A. Maintain strict control of firearms. Never permit any
firearms inside the jail except in area where firearms
reauthorized.
B. maintain 24-hour supervision of inmates.
C. maintain a system of key control which shall include an
accurate listing of all keys and of receipting them. Never
permit the inmates to handle keys or to study them.
D. secure firearms and anti-riot equipment in the armory
where they shall be within easy reach of the jail guard and
yet afford maximum security against access by offenders.
E. supervise the proper use and other potentially
dangerous articles such as bottles, acids, kitchen knives,
etc., and keep them out of offenders’ reach when not in
use.
F. conduct regular inmates’ count at least four (4) times
within the 24-hour day-period. Establish procedures
which will ensure beyond doubt, that every offender is
physically present or accounted for, at every count.
G. conduct frequent surprise searches of offenders and
their quarters to detect contraband.
H. conduct frequent inspections of security facilities to
detect tampering or defects.
I. Guard against escapes, assault on jail personnel and
inmates’ disturbances.
J. develop plans dealing with emergencies like escapes,
fires, assaults, riots and noise barrage. Make plans known
and understood by jail personnel.
K. never allow a jail guard to open the inmates’ cell alone.
At least, another guard should be present.
L. select carefully the inmates to be assigned as orderly or
aide and maintain rigid control over their activities. No
offender should be allowed to assume any of the authority
which belongs to the jail staff or shall any inmate be
allowed to exercise authority, supervision and control
over the prisoners.
DUTIES OF CUSTODIAL FORCE
A. Supervise and maintain order and discipline of inmates
housing units, those assembled for religious services,
entertainment and athletics, during meals, classes, work
details, baths and visits;
B. Censor offender’s mail;
C. inspect security devices;
D. maintain inner and outer perimeter security;
E. escort inmates to courts, other authorized places of
confinement and to hospitals in cases of emergencies;
F. ensure custody and safety of those confined in jail;
G. escort visitors within the jail premises;
H. report any infringement of rules and regulations to
proper authorities;
I. Inform the Warden of any emergency case;
J. keep and maintain records of the inmates;
K. perform such other duties as may be assigned by
competent jail authority
INMATE’S COUNT
 It is a part of institutional procedure that at specified
times during each 24-hour period, all inmates are
physically counted. For this type of count, the general
procedure are as follows:
a. Each inmate is counted physically at
specified times;
b. During the count, all movements of
inmates shall cease until the count is
completed;
C. The count must be accurate. A positive
verification must be made that inmates
are physically present;
D. Result of each count of a group of
inmates is submitted to the Warden and/or
Deputy Warden; and
E. If the total jail count does not tally with
the total jail population in any given time,
a verification shall be made. An
immediate report shall be rendered to the
Warden and/or Deputy Warden for any
unaccounted inmate.
SECURITY PROCEDURES DURING MEAL
SERVICE
 Security measures must be considered in the serving
of food inside the cells.
 A jailer should not enter the cells of the inmates to
distribute food unless another officer is available to
handle the keys and control the entrance door.
 When food distribution is to be undertaken with only
one officer on duty, it is essential that the food shall
be served without unlocking the door if there is
danger of being overpowered by the inmate.
DINING ROOM SECURITY
A. As a general precaution, individual mess utensils
of inmates shall be made of plastics.
B. When dining rooms are provided, the inmates
should be marched in column of two’s along
designated routes under the supervision of one or
two jail personnel. Other officials may be
stationed along the route to direct the orderly
movement of inmates to and from the mess hall.
C. There must be a roving supervisor to handle
occasional disturbances or settle complaints.
D. After meals, all utensils used by the inmates
should be collected. This should be strictly
supervised by jail personnel; to be sure that no
utensils are brought out from the dining room.
E. Forks, spoons and other kitchen utensils should be
checked and accounted for after every meal.

MAIL CENSORSHIP
 Communication with relatives, friends and lawyers
are encouraged among inmates through
correspondence. However, this privilege will be
extended to inmates subject to the following
regulations:
A. Duly designated censor, a member
of the custodial force will maintain and
record all incoming and outgoing
mails of inmates;
B. The inmate’s mail shall be opened
and searched only by qualified,
trained and authorized jail
personnel.
C. Letters containing currency, checks or
money should be marked with the amount
enclosed and deposited with the Trust
Office/Property Custodian. The
receiving officer should list down the
amount received on a receipt forming
duplicate. The original receipt
signed by the receiving officer
should be kept for the record and
the duplicate copy should be given to the
inmate for his information;
D. All greeting cards should be carefully
examined, and fillers of any kind
therein should be collected for
laboratory examination;
E. Photographs clearly within the scope
of the jail regulations should be
marked on the reversed side and
placed in the envelope;
FIRE PREVENTION RULES
 RULES Fires do not only cause financial losses but
also loss of lives and property. To prevent
occurrences of conflagration in jails and minimize its
effect if such occur, the following rules should be
followed:
a. Jail Warden must designate a smoking
area for inmates;
b. Fire extinguishers should be placed in
close proximity to all housing units and
should be located in strategic places in
buildings, and work area;
c. Maintain a reserved water placed inside
available drums or cans and some with san
placed in strategic places for ready use;
d. Keys to all emergency exits, cells,
brigades and storage places of fire-
fighting equipment should be made available. Such
keys should have tags, marked distinctly to
avoid confusion during emergencies;
e. Portable floodlights should be available in
the control center for night fires; and
f. Government equipment should be placed with
markings, tags or symbols to determine its priority
during evacuation phasing –In case of fire, inmates
directly affected by the fire should be transferred to safety
in a cell or secured area away from the fire under
guard.
EMERGENCY PLANS
 emergency plans for fires or conflagrations, riots or
violent disturbances, jailbreaks and others should be
formulated to suit the physical structure and other
factors peculiar to the individual jail.
 Fire plan and the like should become a part of the
operational plans which every jail is expected to
maintain.
 It is important that each participant must know his
particular role.
DIVERSIFICATION
 Is an administrative device of correctional institutions
of providing varied and flexible types of physical
plants for more effective custody, security and
 control of the treatment programs of its diversified
population.
 Istheprincipleofseparatinghomogenoustypeofprisoner
s.
 Deals with these paration of inmates according to
age, sex, medical or mental condition and degree of
custody.
AIMS OF DIVERSIFICATION
 More effective execution of the treatment programs
 To prevent prisoners from moral and physical
contamination
 To prevent unnecessary custodial risks
HOW DIVERSIFICATION IS CARRIED OUT
 It can be done either building special institution for
different classes of prisoners through proper
segregation of inmates that is big institutions can be
broken into smaller units.
FACTORS CONSIDERED IN
DIVERSIFICATION:
1.Age-prisoners 18 years and below should desegrated
2.Sex-female and male are separated
3.Medical and Mental Conditions
4.Degree of custody
CLASSIFICATION
 A method by which diagnosis, treatment, planning,
and execution of treatment programs are coordinated
in the individual case.
 Refers to the best program to be adopted for the
rehabilitation of inmates according to their needs and
existing resources.
GOOD CONDUCT TIME ALLOWANCE
 Is a privilege granted to a prisoner that shall entitle
him to a deduction of his term of imprisonment.
Under Art. 97, RPC,
 the good conduct of any prisoner in any
penal institution shall entitle him to the
following deduction from the period of
his sentence.
1.During the first two years of his imprisonment,
he shall be allowed a deduction of 5 days for each
month of good behavior.
2.During the third to the fifth years of his
imprisonment, he shall be allowed a deduction of 8
days each month of good behavior.
4. During the following years until the tenth years
of his imprisonment, he shall be allowed a deduction
of 10 days each month of good behavior. During the
eleventh and the successive years of his
imprisonment, he shall be allowed a deduction of 15
days each month of good behavior.
CRIMES INVOVING JAIL OFFICERS
 Delay in the Delivery of Detained Persons to the
Proper Judicial Authorities
12 HOURS. For crimes or offenses
punishable by light penalties
18 HOURS. For crimes or offences
punishable by correctional
penalties
36 HOURS. For crimes or offenses
punishable by afflictive or
capital penalties
Arbitrary Detention
 committed where the detention of a person is without
legal grand
Delaying Release
 committed by a public offices or employee who
delays for the period of time
Delivery of Prisoners From Jail
 The offender is a private individual
 He removes a person confined in jail as a penal
institution
 The means employed are violence, intimidation,
bribery
COMMUNITY-BASED
TREATMENT PROGRAMSAND
OTHER TERMINOLOGIES
 Those programs are intended to treat criminal
offenders within the free community as alternatives
to confinement.
 It includes all correctional activities directly
addressed to the offenders and aimed at helping him
to become a law abiding-citizen.
PROBATION
 It is a disposition whereby a defendant, after
conviction of an offence, the penalty of which does
not exceed 6 years of imprisonment, is released
subject to the conditions imposed by the releasing
court and under the supervision of a probation
officer.
 Probation is a substitute for imprisonment, the
probationer is compared to an outpatient, a sick
person who does not need to be hospitalized because
his illness is considered less serious.
 Presidential Decree 968 otherwise known as the
“Adult Probation Law” approved and took effect on
July 24, 1976. Sec. 18 of it as amended states the
creation of Probation Administration under the
DOJ, which shall exercise general supervision over
all probationers.
Advantages of Probation
 The convicted criminal offender can continue to work
in his place of employment
 It prevents the tendency of broken homes
 A relieves prison congestion
PAROLE
 Is the process of suspending the sentence of a
convict after having served the minimum of his
sentence without granting him pardon, and
prescribing the terms upon which the sentence shall
be suspended.(Tradio)
BOARD OF PARDON AND PAROLE (BPP)
A. A quasi-judicial body which was created under Act
# 4103 otherwise known as the Indeterminate Sentence
Law of the Parole Law, the agency that grants parole to
any prisoner who is qualified to enjoy its benefit.
B. It employs the service of Parole Officers in
providing supervision and guidance to parolees.
RELATED LAWS
1.ACT No. 4103 - Indeterminate Sentence Law
2.Act No. 3315 - also known as the law on working
detention.
3.Act No. 3326 - also known as a of Prescription of
Penalty.
4.ACT 3316 - the formal basis on the grant of Good
Conduct Time Allowance for prisoners.
5.Act. No-6036 - Law on Release on Recognizance
(ROR).
6.E.O. 292 - Administrative Code of1987
7.P.D. 28 - Law establishing Regional prisons.
8.P.D. 968 - Adult Probation Law
9.Republic Act 7659 - also known as an Act imposing the
Death Penalty
10.Republic Act 8177 - law imposing lethal injection
11. Republic Act 9346 - law abolishing death penalty
12.Republic Act 6981 - Witness Protection Program
13.Republic Act 7438 - an act defining the right of the
accused
14.Republic Act 6127 - Grant of full-time credit period of
preventive detention, which fully deducts the period of the
offender’s preventive imprisonment detention from the
sentence imposed by the court.
15.Republic Act 4203 - a law which creates the Board of
Pardon and Parole, to look into the physical, mental and
moral record of convicted offenders in order to determine
who shall be eligible for parole, probation and pardon.
16.Republic Act 6975 – DILG Act of1990
17.Republic Act 9263 – Professionalization Act of BFP
and BJMP2004
OTHER TERMINOLOGIES
AMNESTY
 A general pardon extended to a class of person or
who maybe guilty of political offenses.
BENIGN NEGLECT
 The slighting of female offenders’ special problems
and needs, particularly in the provision of programs
and services.
BONDSMAN
 An independent businessperson who provides bail
money for a free, usually 5 to 10 percent of the total.
BOOKING
 A police administrative action officially recording an
arrest and identifying the person, place, time, the
arresting authority and the reason for the arrest.
CARPETA
 otherwise known as inmate record or jacket, it
contains the personal and criminal record of the
inmate
COMMUTATION
 An act of the president changing/reducing a heavier
sentence to a lighter one or a longer term into shorter
term. It may alter Death Sentence to Life Sentence or
a Life Sentence to a term of years.
COMMITMENT
 the entrusting for confinement of an inmate to a jail
by a competent court or authority, for purposes of
investigating the individual’s offense or
transgression of laws.
COMMITMENT ORDER
 A written order of the court or any other competent
authority consigning an offender to a jail or prison
for confinement.
CONTRABAND
 Any article, item, or thing prohibited by law/ or
forbidden by jail rules.
DESTIERRO
 The penalty of banishing a person from a place where
he committed a crime prohibiting him to get near or
enter the 25-kilometer perimeter.
EXPUNGE
 The sealing or purging of arrest, criminal, or juvenile
record information
HOME DETENTION
 The release of a sentenced inmate from a correctional
institution to his or her own home with the stipulation
that the inmate may leave only to go to work.
INDETERMINATE SENTENCE
 A period of incarceration set by a judge as a
minimum term that must be served before a decision
on parole eligibility is made and a maximum form at
the conclusion of which the sentence has been
completed.
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
 The officially stated number of inmates or residents
that a correctional facility is designed to
house, exclusive of extra-ordinary arrangements
to accommodate overcrowded conditions.
INMATE CODE
 A set of rules of conduct that reflect the values and
norms of the prison social system and help to define
for inmates the characteristics associated with the
model prisoner
MANDATORY RELEASE
 The required release of an inmate from incarceration
upon the expiration of a certain time period as
stipulated by a determinate sentencing law or parole
guidelines.
MITTIMUS
 A warrant issued by the court bearing its seal
and the signature of the judge, directing the jail or
prison authorities to receive inmates for custody
or service of sentence imposed therein.
PREVENTIVE DETENTION
 The detention of an accused in prison or in jail for the
purpose of protecting the community from
crimes, the accused is considered likely to commit
if he or she is set free pending from trial.
PRISONIZATION
 The process by which a new inmate absorbs the
customs of the prison society and learns to adapt to
the environment.
SAFEKEEPING
 The temporary custody of a person for his own
protection, safety and care; and or his security from
harm, injury or danger for the liability he has
committed.
SENTENCE
 The penalty imposed by a court on a convicted
person, or the court’s decision to suspend imposition
or execution of the penalty.
SPECIAL TIME ALLOWANCE
 A deduction of one-fifth of the period of the sentence
of any prisoners who reward the service of sentence
UTILITARIANISM
 The doctrine that the aim of all action should be
the greatest possible balance of pleasure over
pain, hence, the belief that a punishment inflicted
on an offender must achieve enough good to
outweigh the pain inflicted.
WORK RELEASE
 The released of sentenced inmate from a correctional
institution foe work during the day, the inmate must
spend nights and weekends in the facility.
PUNISHABLE ACTS OF INMATES
 MINOR OFFENSES
1)Selling or bartering with fellow inmate of items not
classified as contraband
2)Rendering personal service to fellow inmate.
3)Untidy or dirty in his personal appearance.
4)Littering or failing to maintain cleanliness and
orderliness in his quarters and/or surroundings.
5)Making frivolous or groundless complaints.
6)Taking the cudgels for or reporting complaints on
behalf of other inmates.
7)Late in inmate formation without justifiable reasons.
8)Willful waste of food.
 LESS GRAVEOFFENSES
1)Failure to report for work detail without sufficient
justification.
2)Failure to render assistance to an injured personnel or
inmate.
3)Failure to assist in putting out fires inside the jail.
4)Acting boisterously during religious, social and other
group functions.
5)Swearing, cursing or using profane or defamatory
language, directed personally towards other persons.
6)Malingering or feigning illness to escape work
assignment.
7)Spreading rumors or maliciously intriguing against the
honor of any person including members of the custodial
force.
8)Falling to stand at attention and give due respect when
confronted by or reporting to any officer or member of the
custodial force.
9)Forcing fellow inmates to render personal service to
himself and/or others.
10)Exchanging uniform or wearing clothes other than
those issued to him for the purpose of circumventing jail
rules.
11)Loitering or being in an unauthorized place.
12)Using the telephone without authority form the Desk
Officer/Warden.
13)Writing, defacing, or drawing on walls, floors or any
furniture or equipment.
14)Withholding information which is inimical and
prejudicial to the jail administration.
15)Possession of led or pornographic literature and/or
photographs.
16)Absence from cell, brigade place of work during head
count, or any time without justifiable reason.
17)Failing to turnover any implements/articles issued after
the work detail.
18)Committing any act prejudicial to or which is not
necessary to good order and discipline.
 GRAVEOFFENSES
1)Making untruthful statements or lies in official
communication, transaction, or investigation.
2)Keeping or concealing keys or locks of places in the jail
where it is off-limits to inmates.
3)Giving gifts, selling to, or bartering with jail personnel.
4)Keeping his possession money, jewelry, or other
contraband which the rules prohibit.
5)Tattooing other or allowing himself to be tattooed on
any part of the body, or keeping any paraphernalia to be
used in tattooing.
6)Forcibly taking or extracting money from fellow
inmates.
7)Punishing or inflicting injury or harm upon himself or
other inmates.
8)Receiving, keeping, taking or imbibing liquor and other
prohibited drugs.
9)Making, improvising or keeping any kind of deadly
weapon.
10)Concealing or withholding information on plans of
attempted escapes.
11)Unruly conduct and behavior and flagrant disregard of
discipline and instructions.
12)Escaping, attempting or planning to escape from the
institution or from any guard.
13)Helping, aiding or abetting others to escape.
14)Fighting, causing any disturbance or participating
therein and/or agitating to cause such disturbance or riot.
15)Indecent, immoral or lascivious acts by himself or
others and/or allowing to be the subject of such indecent,
immoral or lascivious acts.
16)Willful disobedience to a lawful order issued by an
officer or member of the custodial force.
17)Assaulting any officer or member of the custodial
force.
18)Assaulting any officer or member of the custodial
force.
19)Participating in any kangaroo court, an unauthorized or
irregular court conducted with disregard for or perversion
of legal procedures as a mock court by inmates in a
jail/prison.
20)Affiliating oneself to any gang or faction whose main
purpose is to foment regionalism or to segregate
themselves to foment regionalism or to segregate
themselves from others.
21)Failing to inform the authorities concerned when
afflicted with any communicable disease, like VD,etc.
22)Engaged in gambling or any game of chance.
23)Committing any act which is in violation of any law or
ordinance, in which case, he shall separately be
prosecuted criminally in accordance with law.