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CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION
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PRESENTATION
1.1 INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTIONS
LEC. CAI DEL CASTILLO, RCrim + TOP 6 DEC 2022 CLE
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CAIRA S. DEL CASTILLO, RCrim.
TOP 6 + CRIMINOLOGY LICENSURE EXAMINATION
DECEMBER 2022
PENOLOGY OFFICER ELIGIBLE

OCTOBER 2022
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CRIMINOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE
NATIONAL REVIEW LECTURER

AMICI REVIEW CENTER
CUM LAUDE + HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE
HCDC ALUMNA 2022

A facility or a place of confinement for inmates who
are waiting or undergoing trial or serving sentence
of 6 months to 3 years
A. CITY JAIL
B. DISTRICT JAIL
C. MUNICIPAL JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
This Act shall be known as the “Bureau of Fire
Protection and Bureau of Jail Management and
Penology Professionalization Act of 2004.”
a. RA 6975
b. RA 9070
c. RA 9263
Within large cities or a group of clustered
municipalities, a ________ may be established
A. CITY JAIL
B. MUNICIPAL JAIL
C. DISTRICT JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
A facility or a place of confinement for inmates
coming from a city or clustered municipalities who
of one (1) day to three (3) years.
A. CITY JAIL
B. DISTRICT JAIL
C. MUNICIPAL JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
A suffering inflicted to an individual for having been
committed an offense.
A. PENALTY
B. PUNISHMENT
C. IMPRISONMENT
D. INCARCERATION
Who among the following has the authority to grant
Good Conduct Time Allowance?
A. DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS

B. CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND
PENOLOGY
C. WARDEN OF A PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL OR
CITY JAIL
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
The period of deducted sentence granted to a prisoner
who escaped on the occasion of disorder arising from
conflagrations, earthquakes or catastrophe where he
voluntarily surrender within 48 hours following the
issuance of a proclamation announcing the termination
of such disorder.
a. 1/5 period of sentence of sentence

b. 2/5 period of sentence of sentence
c. 1/2 period of sentence of sentence
d. none
The features of the prison system were confinement
of the prisoners in these cells day and night.
A. PENNSYLVANIA
B. MAMERTIME
C. AUBURN
D. ALCATRAZ
A written order of the court, or any other agency
authorized by law to issue, entrusting an inmate to a
jail for the purpose of safekeeping during the
pendency of his/her case.
A. COMMITMENT ORDER
B. MITTIMUS ORDER
C. CARPETA
D. WARRANT OF ARREST
Are those inmates who are physically or mentally
weak for a prolonged period of time specifically
caused by age or illness.
A. INFIRMED INMATES
B. INMATES WITH DISABILITIES
C. SICKLY INMATES
D. PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE INMATES
An inmate who is about to be released shall be
proceeded at the separation and placement center
for how many days before his actual release.
A. 25 DAYS
B. 30 DAYS
C. 35 DAYS
D. 60 DAYS
Which of the following is a place for the
confinement of minimum security prisoner?
A. CAMP SAMPAGUITA
B. BUKANG LIWAYWAY
C. QUARANTINE UNIT
D. RDC
The Sablayan penal colony is located at.
A. OCCIDENTAL MINDORO
B. ORIENTAL MINDORO
C. LEYTE
D. PALAWAN
Use of telephone of inmate in prison after showing a
good behavior is earned after 90 days. In such case
an inmate is entitled to.
A. 5 MINUTES
B. 3 MINUTES
C. NOT EXCEEDING 5 MINUTES
D. NOT EXCEEDING 3 MINUTES
Is an escalating level of force commencing from no
force, to non-deadly force and ultimately, to deadly
force.
A. MAXIMUM TOLERANCE
B. FORCE CONTINUUM
C. FORCE MOMENTUM
D. NONE OF THESE
It refers to the institutional records of the inmates.
A. PRISON RECORD
B. CARPETA
C. MITTIMUS
D. COMMITMENT
Books the newly committed inmate in the jail blotter;
assigns the inmate to a reception area, if any, where
he/she shall be scheduled for orientation on jail
rules and regulation.
A GATER
B. RECORDS UNIT
C. HEALTH UNIT
D. DESK OFFICER
It is amendment and penitence model of prison built
in 1620’s were communication among the prisoners
was next to impossible, prisoners are individually
isolated.
A. PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM
B. AUBURN PRISON
C. MAMMERTIME PRISON
D. JUSTINIAN PRISON
MANUEL IS A _____ PRISONER WITH A SENTENCE OF
6 MONTHS AND 1 DAY.
A. DISTRICT
B. CITY
C. MUNICIPAL
D. PROVINCIAL
An infant born while the mother is serving sentence
in the CIW may be allowed to stay with the mother
for a period not exceeding .
A. 6 MONTHS
B. 8 MONTHS
C. 1 YEAR
D. 2 YEARS
 theories and principles of Penology,
Punishment, Penalty, Sentencing, and
Rehabilitation, including the rights, legal
limitations, and conditions set forth by the
Constitution, Law, and United Nations
Declarations.
 functions, organization, administration,

management, operations, planning,
decision-making process, training,
disciplinary process, and accountability of
personnel in the BJMP, Provincial Jail,
BUCOR, and other facilities.
 admission process of persons deprived of
liberty, release of persons deprived of liberty,
security and safety processes and
requirements of PDLs inside the institution,
visitation, movement, and escorting
procedure, the trial of PDLs, custody, control
and disciplinary process of PDLs in the BJMP,
Provincial Jail, BUCOR, and other facilities.
 principles, management, planning, and

decision-making of crises and incidents in the
BJMP, Provincial Jail, BUCOR, and other
facilities in case of riot, escape, hostage,
contrabands, fire, food poisoning, flood,
earthquake, typhoon, and other calamities
and incidents.
CORRECTION
concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal

offenders.
utilizes the body of knowledge and practices of the government and the
society in general involving the process of handling individuals who have been
convicted of offenses
it is a generic term that includes all the government agencies, facilities,

programs, procedures, personnel, and techniques concerned with the
investigation, intake, custody, confinement, supervision or treatment of
alleged offenders.
PENOLOGY
 LT: POENA  PAIN/SUFFERING / PUNISHMENT

 known as Penal science
 study of punishment for crime or criminal offenders
 deals with prison management and the treatment of offenders and
concerned itself with the philosophy and practice of the society in its
effort to repress criminal activities.
PENOLOGY
Principal Aims of Penology:
1. To bring light in the ethical barriers of punishment, along with the

motives and purposes of society inflicting it.
2. To make comparative study of penal laws and procedures through

history between nations.
3. To evaluate the social consequences of the policies enforced at a

given time
CORRECTION
PENOLOGY
It is a division of criminology that refers to the
handling and processing of PDL
Corrections
Penology
It is a pillar of CJS that refers to the handling and
processing of PDL
Corrections
Penology
CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION
it refers to the study and practice of a systematic management of jails

or prisons and other institution concerned with the custody, treatment
and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
PENAL MANAGEMENT
refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling plases of

confinement as in jails or prison.
HISTORY
CONCEPT
primary  protection of society
latest  rehabilitation
reformation
reintegration
restorative
REHABILITATION - A program or activity directed to restore an inmate’s self-
respect and sense of responsibility to the community, thereby making him/her
a law-abiding citizen after serving his/her sentence.
REFORMATION- means amending or improving by changing inmate's behavior

or removing his or her faults or abuse and removing or correcting an abuse a
wrong or error.
REINTEGRATION + re-introducing of offender to the community
RESTORATIVE + the process of resolving conflict with the maximum

engagement of the victim, offender, and the community
PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF PENOLOGY
1. Classical School + the doctrine of psychological hedonism or

freewill.
2. Neo-Classical School + children, insane, and imbecile must

be free from punishment.
3. Positivist/Italian School + criminality is measured and

observed.
THE EARLY CODES
1. Code of Draco (Athenian)
 dura lex sed lex

 known for their cruelty and their bias
 a harsh code that provides the same
punishment for both citizens and the slaves as
it incorporates primitive concepts (Vengeance,
Blood Feuds).
THE EARLY CODES
2. Code of King Hammurabi (Babylonian)
 lex taliones (retaliation)

 death penalty, mutilation
 credited as the oldest code prescribing
savage punishment
THE EARLY CODES
3. Code of Ur-Nammu (Summerian)
 summerian justice
 oldest law code in human history which survives
to this day
 punishments that were less severe - imposes fine
3. if a man commits a kidnapping, he is to be

imprisoned and pay 15 shekels of silver.
THE EARLY CODES
4. The Twelve Tables (XII Tabulae), (451-450 BC)
 foundation of all public and private law of the Romans

 collection of legal principles engraved on metal tablets and set up on
the forum.
5. The Burgundian Code (500 A.D)
 specified punishment according to the social class of the offenders

 specifying the value of the life of each person according to social
status.
PUNISHMENT
is the redress that the state takes against an offending member of society that
usually involves pain and suffering.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
1. DEATH PENALTY
the infliction of death as a

punishment for breaking criminal law
execution of an offender sentenced to

death after conviction by a court of
law
2. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
effected by maiming, mutilation,

whipping and other inhumane or
barbaric forms of inflicting pain.
3. SOCIAL DEGRADATION
putting the offender into shame or

humiliation.
4. BANISHMENT OR EXILE
the sending or putting away of an offender

which was carried out either by
prohibition against coming into a specified
territory such as an island to where the
offender has been removed.
METHOD USED IN PUNISHMENT
1. Gag
- to put something (such as a piece of cloth) into or over a
person's mouth in order to prevent that person from
speaking, calling for help, etc.
2. Bridle
- it is an iron cage that fit over the head and had a front
plate that was sharpened or covered with spikes designed
to fit into the mouth of the offender making movement of the
tongue very painful.
3. Ducking Stool
+ it has been used as a punishment as early as the 11th
century. Those sentenced to be “ducked” were placed on a
chair and suspended over a body of water and plunged into it.
4. Stocks
- used as outside jails to punish the idle prior to the
construction of houses of correction in England.
.
5. Pillories
- with holes for securing the head and hands
6. Branding
- for offenders to be identified and stigmatized. It was
employed for making offenders, slaves and prisoners of war
recognizable.
.
7. Whipping/Flogging/Scourging
- a beating administered with a whip or rod, with blows
commonly directed to the person’s back.
8. Russian Knot
- a wooden-handled whip that typically consisted of several
rawhide thongs twisted together, terminating in a single
strand that projected about 18 inches beyond the body of the
knot. The strands sometimes had hooks or rings attached to
the ends.
METHODS OF INFLICTING THE DEATH PENALTY
1. BEHEADING
- head is sliced apart from the body, utilizing an axe or sword.
2. BLOOD ATONEMENT
- blood must be shed during execution to “atone” before Christ for his sins.
3. BOILING TO DEATH
- A Little-used method of capital punishment, utilized mainly to stun the victims
before they were hanged on the gallows. The first use of this technique may
have come soon after 1531, when it was made legal by King Henry VIII of England.
METHODS OF INFLICTING THE DEATH PENALTY
4. BURNING AT THE STAKE

- tied to a wooden stake, surrounded by flammable material (usually faggots or
sticks of wood) assembled into a pyre, which is then lit a fire and allowed to burn
until the victim is consumed.
5. GAS CHAMBER
- method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas
6. STONING TO DEATH
- a method of capital punishment, where a victim was chosen trapped in a corner,
and pelted with heavy rocks and stones until his or her skull was crushed. This
punishment was specified in the Mosaic Code, the laws of the Jews promulgated in
the name of Moses.
DEATH PENALTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
GARROTE
 GOMBURZA
 1872 under spanish colonial rule
 reason: exposing the venalities of
the church
abolished by virtue of act 451

MUSKETRY
 DR. JOSE P. RIZAL
 under spanish colonial rule
 reason: alleged rebellion
against spanish govt
BEHEADING
HANGING
 substituted from garrote
ELECTRIC CHAIR / SILICA
ELECTRICA
a device used to execute an individual by
electrocution.
MARCIAL PEREZ AMA
 electrocuted at the age of 16 on October 4,

1961
 leading the biggest jail-riot in Muntinlupa
Penitentiary history
 nine prisoners death with one beheaded
LETHAL INJECTION
 congress passed RA 7659
amended by RA 8177 imposing to
carry out death penalty by lethal
injection
SODIUM THIOPENTAL
PANCURONIUM BROMIDE
POTTASSIUM CHLORIDE
LEO PILO ECHEGARAY
 first filipino to be executed after its

reinstatement of death penalty in the
philippines in 1993.
 executed at nbp
"sámbayanáng pilipino, patawarin ako sa

kasalanang ipinaratang ninyo sa akin. pilipino,
pinatáy ng kapwa pilipino."
RA 9346
 AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY

IN THE PHILIPPINES
 Signed on June 24, 2006
 Former Pres. GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

EARLY FORMS OF PRISON DISCIPLINE
1. Hard Labor + productive works

2. Deprivation + deprivation of everything except the essentials of
existence.
3. Monotony + giving the same food that is “off” diet, or requiring the
prisoners to perform drab or boring daily routine.
4. Uniformity + “we treat the prisoner alike”, “the fault of one is the fault
off all”.
5. Mass Movement + mass giving in cellblocks, mass eating, mass recreation,
mass bathing.
6. Degradation + uttering insulting words or prisoners to degrade or break
the confidence of prisoners.
7. Corporal Punishment + imposing brutal punishment or employing physical
force to intimidate a delinquent inmate.
8. Isolation or Solitary Confinement + non-communication, limited news, “the
lone wolf”.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
1. IMPRISONMENT
+ putting the offender in prison for the purpose of protecting the public
against criminal activities and at the same time rehabilitating the prisoners by
requiring them to undergo institutional treatment programs.
2. PAROLE
+ a conditional release of a prisoner after serving part of his/her sentence in
prison for the purpose of gradually re-introducing him/her to free life under
the guidance and supervision of a parole officer.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
3. PROBATION
+ a disposition whereby a defendant after conviction of an offence, the penalty of
which does not exceed six years imprisonment, is released subject to the
conditions imposed by the releasing court and under the supervision of a
probation officer.
4. FINE
+ an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.
5. DESTIERRO
+ the penalty of banishing a person from the place where he committed a crime,
prohibiting him to get near or enter the 25-kilometer perimeter.
JUSTIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT
1. RETRIBUTION
- personal vengeance
+ the punishment should be provided by the state whose sanction is
violated, to afford the society of the individual the opportunity of imposing
upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced.
2. EXPIATION OR ATONEMENT
+ it is punishment in the form of group vengeance where the purpose is
to appease the offended public or group.
JUSTIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT
3. DETERRENCE
+ punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to others what
would happen to them if they violate the law; warn potential offenders that
they can not afford to do what the offender has done.
4. INCAPACITATION AND PROTECTION

+ held in conditions where he cannot harm others especially the public.;
placing offenders in prison so that society will be ensured from further
criminal depredations of criminals.
5. REFORMATION OR REHABILITATION
+ it is the establishment of the usefulness and responsibility of the
offender. Society’s interest can be better served by helping the prisoner to
law abiding citizen and productive upon his return to the community by
requiring him to undergo intensive programs of rehabilitation in prison.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF CORRECTIONS:
13TH CENTURY
SECURING SANCTUARY
criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refugee in a church for a period of 40
days at the end of which time, he has compelled to leave the realm by a road or path
assigned to him
BENEFIT OF THE CLERGY

a compromise between the church and the king, wherein any member of the clergy
brought to trial in the king’s court shall be claimed from the jurisdiction by the bishop
or chaplain representing him and placed under the authority of the ecclesiastical court.
PENALTY
is defined as the suffering inflicted by the state against an offending
member for the transgression of law.
JURIDICAL CONDITIONS OF PENALTY
1. Productive of suffering + without however affecting the

integrity of the human personality.
2. Commensurate with the offense + different crimes must be punished
with different penalties (Art. 25, RPC).
3. Personal + the guilty one must be the one to be
punished, no proxy.
4. Legal + the consequence must be in
accordance with the law.
5. Equal + equal for all persons.
6. Certain + no one must escape its effects.
7. Correctional + changes the attitude of offenders and
become law-abiding citizens.
DURATION AND EFFECTS OF PENALTIES
1. RECLUSION PERPETUA - 20 years to 40 yrs

2. RECLUSION TEMPORAL - 12 years and 1 day to 20 years
3. PRISION MAYOR AND P/T DISQUALIFICATION
- 6 years and 1 day to 12 years
4. PRISION CORRECCIONAL, SUSPENSION, AND DESTIERRO
- 6 months and 1 day to 6 years
5. ARRESTO MAYOR - 1 month and 1 day to 6 months
6. ARRESTO MENOR - 1 day to 30 days
Bond to keep the peace - discretionary on the part of the court
SOCIAL JUSTIFICATION OF PENALTY
1. PREVENTION + the state shall punish the criminal to prevent or suppress the danger
to the state arising from the criminal acts of the offender.
2. SELF-DEFENSE + the state has a right to punish the criminal as a measure of self-
defense so as to protect society from the threat and wrong inflicted by the criminal
3. REFORMATION + the object of punishment in criminal cases is to correct and reform

the offender
4. EXEMPLARITY + the criminal is punished by the state as an act to deter others from
committing crimes.
5. JUSTICE + that the crime must be punished by the state as an act of retributive, a
vindication of absolute right and moral violated by the criminal
PURPOSE OF PENALTY
1. RETRIBUTION OR EXPIATION + the penalty is commensurate with the gravity

of offense as a matter of payment for the damage done
2. CORRECTIVE OR REFORMATION + as shown by the rules which regulates the

execution of the penalties consisting in deprivation of liberty, thereby giving
chance for his reformation.
3. SOCIAL DEFENSE + as shown by its inflexible severity to recidivist and

habitual delinquents. Society must provide the welfare of the people against
any order in the community.
EARLY PRISONS
THE EARLY PRISONS
1. MAMERTIME PRISON
- the only early Roman place of confinement, which is built under the
main sewer of Rome in 64 B.C
2. THE NEW GATE PRISON

- was not a real prison but an abandoned cooper mine located at
Simsbury Connecticut, the inmates were confined underground, and
were considered a black hole of horrors, which really belong to barbaric
past.
3. BRIDEWELL WORKHOUSE (1553-1700)

- The most popular workhouse in London which was built for the
employment and housing of English prisoners.
THE EARLY PRISONS
4. WALNUT STREET JAIL

- was originally constructed as a detention jail in Philadelphia was
converted into a state prison and became the first American
Penitentiary.
5. BOOT CAMPS/ SHOCK INCARCERATION

- a short term correctional programs resembling some aspects of
military basic training; targets younger offenders who resist
authority and refuse to listen or learn in traditional classroom or
treatment environments; boot camps ranges three to six months.
6. SINGSING PRISON (NY, US)

- oldest prison in US penal institutions
THE EARLY PRISONS (FOR YOUTH CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS)
HOSPICE DE SAN MICHELLE (ROME)

POPE CLEMENT XI
for delinquent boys that sees value of one’s work was seen as key
requirement of turning away from criminal life
BORSTAL INSTITUTION (ENGLAND)

SIR EVELYN BRISE
a young offenders institution considered as the first institution of
its kind separating children from adult offenders.
NY HOUSE OF REFUGE
1824 - total segragation of youth offender
THE TWO RIVAL PRISON SYSTEM IN THE HISTORY OF
CORRECTION
1. PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SYSTEM

- Solitary System; confined in single cells day and night
where they lived, they slept, and they ate and receive
religious instructors.
2. THE AUBURN PRISON SYSTEM

-Congregate System; confinement in separate cells but
brought the inmates together into congregate workshops
- The prisoners are confined in their own cells during the
night and congregate work in shops during the day.
GALLEYS - long, low, narrow, single decked ship propelled
by sails, usually rowed by criminals, a type of ship used for
transportation of criminals in the 16th century.
HULKS - decrepit transport, former warship 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”.
THE PIONEERS OF
CORRECTIONAL REFORM
THE PIONEERS OF CORRECTIONAL REFORM
1. WILLIAM PENN (1614-1718)

- William Penn fought for religious freedom and individual rights. He is
the first leader to prescribe imprisonment as correctional treatment or
major offenders. He is responsible for the abolition of death penalty and
torture as a form of punishment.
2. VOLTAIRE (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

- He was the most versatile of all philosophers during this period. He
believes that fear of shame was a deterrent to crime.
- He fought the legality-sanctioned practice of torture.
3. CESARE BONESA, MARCHESE DE BECCARIA (1738-1794)

- He wrote an essay entitled “An Essay on Crimes and Punishment”, the
most exciting essay on law during this century. It presented the
humanistic goal of law.
4. JEREMY BENTHAM (1748-1832)

- He was one of the greatest of leaders in the reform of English
criminal law. He believe that whatever punishment designed to negate
what ever pleasure of gain the criminal derives from crime; the crime
would go down. Bentham was the one who devise the ultimate
PANOPTICAN PRISON + a prison that consist of the large circular
building containing multi cells around the periphery. It was never built.
5. JOHN HOWARD (1726-1790)

- He was sheriff of Bedsfordshire in 1773, who
devote his life and fortune prison reform. After his
finding on English Prisons, he recommended the
following:
 single cells for sleeping

 segregation of women
 segregation of youth
 provision of sanitation facilities
 abolition of fee system by which jailers
obtained money from prisoners
6. ALEXANDER MACANOCHIE
- He is the Superintendent of the penal colony at Norfolk Island in
Australia (1840)
- Introduced the “Mark System”. A system in which a prisoner is required
to earn a number of marks based on proper department, labor and study
in order to entitle him for a ticket for leave or conditional release which is
similar to parole.
7. MANUEL MONTESIMOS
- the Director of prisons in Valencia Spain (1835) who divided the number
of prisoners into companies and appointed certain prisoners as petty
officers in charge, which allowed good behaviour to prepare the convict
for gradual release.
8. DOMETS OF FRANCE
- established an agricultural colony for delinquent boys in 1839 providing
housefathers as in charge of these boys.
9. ELIZABETH Fry
- angel of prison; tailoring
10. JEAN JACQUES VILLAIN

- he pioneered the classification to separate women and children from
hardened criminals.
11. CHARLES MONTESIQUIEU

- believe that harsh punishment will undermine morality and that
appealing to moral sentiments as a better means of preventing crime.
12. ZEBULON BROCKWAY
- The Director of the Elmira Reformatory in

New York (1876) who introduced certain
innovational programs like the following:
training school type, compulsory education of
prisoners, casework methods, extensive use
of parole, indeterminate sentence.
- -"Father of American parole"
The Elmira Reformatory is considered

forerunner of modern penology because it had
the all elements of a modern system.
1870 - 1880 - golden age
-reformed prison system
18th century - age of enlightenment / age of reason

-recognizing human dignity
JAIL
are institutions for the confinement of persons who are awaiting
final disposition of their criminal cases and also the service of those
convicted and punished with shorter sentences, usually up to three
(3) years.
SPANISH JAULA /CAULA ( CAGE)

FRENCH GAOL (PLACE OF COMMISSION OF CRIME )
TYPES OF JAILS
 LOCK-UP + is a security facility for the temporary detention of

persons held for investigation or awaiting preliminary hearing.
 ORDINARY JAIL - houses both offenders awaiting court action

and those serving short sentence usually up to three (3) years.
 WORK HOUSES + jail farm or camp-houses minimum custody

offenders serving short sentences with constructive work
programs.
PRISON
It is penitentiary, an institution for the imprisonment (incarceration)

of persons convicted of major/serious crimes;
MANDATES
BJMP is mandated to direct, supervise Safekeeping and instituting
and control the administration and reformation programs to national
operation of all district, city and inmates sentenced to more than 3
municipal jails nationwide with years.
pronged tasks of safekeeping and
development of PDL.
JANUARY 2, 1991 NOVEMBER 1, 1905

RA 6975 ACT 1407
RA 9263 RA 9592 EO 292 RA 10575

RA 6975 - "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT
OF 1990."
- PNP (23), BFP (53), BJMP (60) BE UNDER THE DILG
- CHAP II + NAPOLCOM
RA 9263 - "BUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION AND BUREAU OF JAIL

MANAGEMENT AND PENOLOGY PROFESSIONALIZATION ACT OF 2004.“
RA 9592 - 5 YRS REGLEMENTARY PERIOD TO COMPLY THE MINIMUM

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT IN BFP AND BJMP
ACT 1407 - REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1905
CREATED THE BUREAU OF PRISONS
(November 1, 1905)
EO 292 - “REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1987."

RENAMED THE BUREAU OF PRISONS TO BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS
(November 23, 1989)
RA 10575 - "THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS ACT OF 2013″.

(signed: 24 May 2013; Former Pres. Benigno Aquino III)
PERSON DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY
detainee, inmate, prisoner, or person under confinement or custody
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF PRISONERS
1. DETENTION PRISONERS
- Those detained for investigation, preliminary hearing, or awaiting trial.
- They are detainee in lock up jail or prisoners under the jurisdiction of the
Courts.
2. SENTENCED PRISONERS
- offenders who are committed to the jail or prison in order to serve their
sentence after final conviction by a competent court.
- They are prisoners under the jurisdiction of penal institutions.
3. PRISONERS WHO ARE IN SAFEKEEPING

- includes non-criminal offenders who are detained in order to protect the
community against the harmful behavior.
Ex. Mentally deranged individuals, insane person.
PDL
CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCE PRISONERS IN JAILS:
1. MUNICIPAL PRISONERS
- those confined in Municipal jails to serve an imprisonment from 1 day
to 6 months.
- Those detained therein who trials their cases are pending with the
MTC.
2. PROVINCIAL PRISONERS
- those people sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment from 6
months and 1 day to 3 years or fined not more than 1,000 pesos, or both;
or those detained therein waiting preliminary investigation of their
cases cognizable by the RTC.
CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCE PRISONERS:
2. CITY PRISONERS
- those sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment form 1 day to 3
years of a fine of not more than 1,000 pesos or both.
- Those detained therein whose cases are filed with the MTC.
- Those detained therein who cases are cognizable by the RTC and
under preliminary investigation.
4. DISTRICT PRISONERS
- those sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment form 1 day to 3
years of a fine of not more than 1,000 pesos or both.
- In a cluster of small jails of large cities
Juan is convicted of a crime with an imprisonment of 2 months and 1 day to 6
months
PROVINCIAL
MUNICIPAL
CITY
DISTRICT
Juan is convicted of a crime with an imprisonment of seven months to twelve
months.
PROVINCIAL
MUNICIPAL
CITY
DISTRICT
Juan is convicted of a crime with an imprisonment of twenty five days to three
years
PROVINCIAL
MUNICIPAL
CITY
DISTRICT
Juan is convicted of a crime with an imprisonment of 3 years and 1 day to 6 years
PROVINCIAL
MUNICIPAL
CITY
DISTRICT
Juan is convicted of a crime with an imprisonment of 6 months and 1 day.
PROVINCIAL
MUNICIPAL
CITY
DISTRICT
SUPER incorrigible, intractable, source of constant not allowed to work
highly dangerous disturbances
MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM escape could be troublemakers but not not allowed to work

dangerous to the public as much as the sup max outside but assigned in
or security of the state industrial shops within
the compound
MEDIUM cannot be trusted in pose lesser danger than allowed to work outside
open condition the maximum prisoner the fence / walls but
with under guards /
escorts
agricultural workers
MINIMUM can be reasonably escape is possibly not can work without
trusted to serve sentenc dangerous to the public presence of
in open condition guards/escorts
MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONERS
those sentenced to death;
those whose minimum sentence is twenty (20) years imprisonment;
remand inmates or detainees whose sentence is twenty (20) years and above and those
whose sentences are under review by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals;
those with pending cases;
recidivists, habitual delinquents and escapees;
those confined at the Reception and Diagnostic center;
those under disciplinary punishment or safekeeping; and
those who are criminally insane or those with severe personality or emotional disorders
that make them dangerous to fellow inmates or the prison staff.
MEDIUM SECURITY PRISONERS
those whose minimum sentence is less than twenty (20) years imprisonment;
remand inmates or detainees whose sentences are below twenty (20) years;
those who are eighteen (18) years of age and below, regardless of the case and sentence;
those who have two (2) or more records of escapes. They can be classified as medium
security inmates if they have served eight (8) years since they were recommitted. Those
with one (1) record of escape must serve five (5) years; and
first offenders sentenced to life imprisonment. They may be classified as medium

security if they have served five (5) years in a maximum security prison or less, upon the
recommendation of the Superintendent.
Those who were detained in a city and/or provincial jail shall not be entitled to said
classification
MINIMUM SECURITY PRISONERS
those with a severe physical handicap as certified by the chief medical officer of the
prison;
those who are sixty-five (65) years old and above, without pending case and whose
convictions are not on appeal;
those who have served one-half (1/2) of their minimum sentence or one-third (1/3) of
their maximum sentence, excluding Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA)
Those who have only six (6) months more to serve before the expiration of their
maximum sentence
COLONIST
- A classified first class inmate for at least 1 yr; good conduct of at 1/5 of max
sentence, or served 7 years in case of life sentence.
FIRST CLASS INMATE

- known character and credit for work; or one who was promoted from lower
class;
SECOND CLASS INMATE

- Newly arrived inmates committed for the first time, or demoted from the
higher class or promoted from a lower class.
THIRD CLASS INMATE

- Those who have been previously committed as a sentenced prisoner for
three times or more except cases involving non-payment of fines, or those
whose classification were reduced from higher class.
A COLONIST SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING PRIVILEGES:
credit of an additional GCTA of five (5) days for each calendar month while he retains said
classification aside from the regular GCTA
automatic reduction of the life sentence imposed on the colonist to a sentence of thirty
(30) years;
subject to the approval of the Director, to have his wife and children, or the woman he
desires to marry, live with him in the prison and penal farm.
The family may avail of all prison facilities such as hospital, church and school free of
charge.
as a special reward to a deserving colonist, the issuance of a reasonable amount of

clothing and ordinarily household supplies
to wear civilian clothes on such special occasions as may be designated by the

Superintendent.
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PDL
AN INMATE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING BASIC RIGHTS:
a. to receive compensation for labor he performs;
b. to be credited with time allowances for good conduct and loyalty;
c. to send and receive mail matter;
d. to practice his religion or observe his faith;
e. to receive authorized visitors;
f. to ventilate his grievances through proper channels; and
g. to receive death benefits and pecuniary aid for injuries.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVILEGES SHALL ALSO BE EXTENDED TO AN INMATE:
a. Attend or participate in any entertainment or athletic activity within the

prison reservation;
b. Read books and other reading materials in the library;
c. Smoke cigar and cigarettes, except in prohibited places;
d. Participate in civic, religious and other activities authorized by prison

authorities; and
e. Receive gifts and prepared food from visitors subject to inspection

PRIVILEGES IN TERMS OF PRISON LABOR:
Prison labor of finally convicted inmate. * A finally convicted able bodied

inmate may be required to work at least eight (8) hours a day, except on
Sundays and legal holidays, in and about the prison, public buildings, grounds,
roads, and other public works of the national government. In the interest of the
service, however, they may be required to work on excepted days.
Prison labor of detainee. * A detainee may not be required to work in prison.

However, he may be made to police his cell and perform such other labor as
may be deemed necessary for hygienic or sanitary reasons
PRIVILEGES IN TERMS OF PRISON LABOR:
Female inmate. * A female inmate shall only be assigned to work on jobs

suitable to her age and physical condition. She shall be supervised only by
women officers.
Old inmate. * An inmate over sixty (60) years of age may be excused from
mandatory labor.
Place of work assignment. * Only medium and minimum security inmates may
be assigned to work in agricultural field projects within a prison reservation.
Maximum security inmates shall not be allowed to work outside the maximum
security compound.
COMPENSATION CREDITS
Inmate compensation. * Six (6) months after being permanently assigned to

work in prison, an inmate may receive compensation credits at rates to be
prescribed by the Director, provided:
a. He maintains good conduct; and

b. He shows interest and a definite degree of progress in the particular
work assigned to him
The inmate may, at any time, withdraw from his compensation earnings in an
amount not exceeding one-half (1/2) of his total earnings.
However, in cases of urgent need and at the discretion of the Superintendent,

the whole of his earnings may be withdrawn. But he may, at any time,
withdraw any part or all monies received from other sources.
PDL who is allowed to work outside but with supervision.
MAX
MED
MIN
PDL who is allowed to work even without supervision
MAX
MED
MIN
PDL who is not allowed to work outside.
MAX
MED
MIN
BuCor PRISON AND PENAL FARMS
NBP - MUNTINLUPA NCR
CIW - - MANDALUYONG, TAGUM NCR & R11
SR P&PF - ZAMBOANGA R9
DAVAO - TAGUM, DDN R11
IWAHIG - PALAWAN R4B
SABLAYAN - OCCIDENTAL MINDORO R4B
LEYTE - LEYTE R8
NATIONAL BILIBID PRISON MALE 3 COMPOUNDS
CORRECTIONAL FEMALE IN DAVAO (TAGUM) AND

INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN MANDALUYONG
SAN RAMON P&PF HE IN COPRA GOV. RAMON BLANCO

OLDEST PRISON UNDER FIL. ADMIN
DAVAO P&PF HE AMONG THE 8 PANABO AND KAPALONG

BANANA / ABACA
IWAHIG P&PF (IUHIT / LUHIT) TAGUMPAY SETTLEMENT UNDER AMERICAN ADM.
ST. LUCIA, INAGAWAN,
MONTEBLE, CENTRA
SABLAYAN P&PF RICE

PUSOD, PASUGI,
YAPANG, CENTRAL
LEYTE P&PF VEGETABLE YOUNGEST PRISON

NEW BILIBID PRISON (NBP)
- Muntinlupa (Main)
- Constructed in 1847 by virtue of Royal Decree of the Spanish crown pursuant
to sec. 1708 of the Revised Administrative Code.
- Operates in two satellite units, namely Camp Bukang Liwayway (Minimum
Security Prisoners) and Camp Sampaguita (Medium Security Unit and Youth
Rehabilitation center).
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN (CIW)

- Mandaluyong City & Tagum-Panabo Circumferential Road
- Created Pursuant to Act 3579, Nov. 27, 1929
- 11 hectares
- 1934 + date of creation for the position for a Female Superintendent
SABLAYAN PENAL COLONY AND FARM
- 16,000 hectares Sablayan, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
- Created pursuant to proclamation no. 72, September 26, 1954
- Rice production
IWAHIG PENAL COLONY AND FARM (OLD NAME IUHIT)

- Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
- Created pursuant to Sec. 1709, Revised Administrative Code of 1917
- Rice production, Corn, copra, logs, minor forest products and cattle’s
- RJ Shields- the first American superintendent
- 1ST Prison Director + George Wolfe
- Envisioned: Gov. Luke Wright
- Ordered by: Gov. William Forbes
DAVAO PENAL COLONY AND FARM
- Central Davao/Panabo Davao
- Created pursuant to act no. 3732 and Proclamation No. 414 series of 1931,
established January 21, 1932
- Gen. Paulino Santos its founder and director of prisons led the first
contingent
- Abacca is the main product
- Biggest Banana producers
LEYTE REGIONAL PRISON

- Abuyog Leyte
- Created pursuant to proc. No. 1101, January 16, 1973
- Youngest penal colony
SAN RAMON PENAL COLONY AND FARM
- Zamboanga City
- The prison was named after the founder Capt. Ramon Blanco of the Spanish
Royal Army.
- Created pursuant to sec. 1720, R.A.C. 1917
- Land area (1546 hectares) Its prime product is Copra and it also raises rice,
corn, coffee, cattle and livestock.
Highest earner among all prison and penal farm.
San Ramon
Davao
Iwahig
Sablayan
Highest earner of copra among all prison and penal farm.
San Ramon
Davao
Iwahig
Sablayan
prison and penal farm where female PDL is being safe keep.
San Ramon
Davao
CIW
NBP
RANK AND FILE POSITIONS
RANK AND FILE POSITIONS
 COMMAND GROUP
 APPOINTING AUTHORITIES
 ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
COMMAND GROUP
1ST Chief / BJMP

2nd Deputy Chief / ADMIN
3RD Deputy Chief / OPERATIONS
4TH Chief / Directorial Staff
APPOINTING AUTHORITY
RANK APPOINTED BY RECOMMENDED BY ATTESTED BY
C / SUPT - DIR PRES SILG C/CHAIR CSC
S / SUPT SILG C/BJMP CSC
INSPT - SUPT C / BJMP IMM. SUP CSC
JO1 - SJO4 C/BJMP CSC
RD CSC
 CHIEF, BJMP
 DCA / DCO / C/DS
 DS / RD
 ASST RD / PROV ADMIN / DISTRICT DIR
 CITY WARDEN
 MUNICIPAL WARDEN / CAD
 PNPA
JAIL DIRECTOR CHARLES S. MONDEJAR
JAIL DIRECTOR ALLAN S. IRAL

COMMAND GROUP
1ST DIR. GEN
2nd DDG ADMIN
DDG OPERATIONS
DDG REFORMATION
3RD C / SUPT
4TH S / SUPT
5TH SUPT
APPOINTING AUTHORITY
RANK APPOINTED BY RECOMMENDED BY ATTESTED BY
DDG – DIR. GEN PRESIDENT SILG CHAIR CSC
CO I – C/SUPT DIR. GEN CSC
LT GEORGE M WOLFE
DG GREGORIO PIO CATAPANG JR.

Who is the 2nd command in BJMP?
DEPUTY CHIEF OPERATIONS

CHIEF BJMP
CHIEF DIRECTORIAL STAFF
DEPUTY CHIEF ADMIN
Who is the 5th command in BuCor?
DDG OPERATIONS
DIR. GEN
DDG ADMIN
S / SUPT
SUPT
DDG REFORMATION
C / SUPT
INSP
ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
charge of all the administrative functions of the jail
➢PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT BRANCH
+ task for the assignment of personnel, procedures of selection,
preparation of personnel reports and individual record files.
➢RECORDS AND STATISTICS BRANCH

+ keep and maintain booking sheets and arrest reports, keep an orderly
record of fingerprints and photographs, prepare and presents statistical
data inmates.
➢PROPERTY AND SUPPLY BRANCH

+ take charge of the safekeeping of the equipment’s and supplies and
materials needed for the operation of the jail.
 BUDGET AND FINANCE BRANCH
+ take charge of all financial matter such as budgeting, financing,
accounting and auditing.
➢ MESS SERVICES BRANCH

+ prepare the daily menu, prepares and cook the food and serve it to
the inmates.
➢ GENERAL SERVICES BRANCH

+ maintain and repair of jail facilities and equipment's. It is also task
with cleanliness beautification of the jail compound
➢ MITTIMUS COMPUTING BRANCH

+ receive court decisions and compute the date of the full completion
of the service sentence of inmates
 ADMITTING AND RELEASING SECTION
+ part the security platoon. it is tasked with receiving of person
committed to the jail and the proper release of prisoners who have
served prison sentence or are released on orders of competent courts
or authority
 REHABILITATION GROUP
+ provides services and assistance to prisoners and their families to
enable them to solve their individual needs and problems arising from
the prisoners confinement, correction and rehabilitation it’s the primary
interest of this group.
 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES

+ provides medical and physical examination of inmates upon
confinement, treatment of sick inmates. also conducts psychiatric and
psychological examination
 WORK AND EDUCATION THERAPY SERVICES
+ charge of the job and educational programs needed for rehabilitation of
inmates by providing them job incentives so they can earn and provide support
for their families while in jail
 SOCIO-CULTURAL SERVICES
+ it takes care of the social care of the social casework study of the individual
prisoners by making interviews, home visits, and referral to community
resources, free legal services, and liaison works for inmates.
 CHAPLAINCY SERVICES
+ it takes charge of the religious and moral upliftment of the inmates through
religious services. this branch caters to all religious sectors.
 GUIDANCE COUNSELLING SERVICES

+ responsible for the individual and group counseling activities to help the lead
a wholesome constructive life.
CUSTODIAL PERSONNEL-TO-INMATE RATIO 1:7
REFORMATION PERSONNEL-TO-INMATE RATIO 1:24
EDUCATION 1:120
BEHAVIOR 1:150
HEALTH 1:180
LIVELIHOOD 1:180
SPIRITUAL 2:225
MORAL 2:240
DORMITORY + refers to the facility exclusively used as confinement area of all
inmates within the prison camp with specific consideration on spatial designation.
Classification of Dormitory
TYPE A DORMITORY + above 500 inmate capacity and lot area of more than 1.5
hectares
TYPE B DORMITORY + 101 to 500 inmate capacity and lot area of 1.5 hectares
TYPE C DORMITORY + 1 to 100 inmate capacity and lot area of 3,000 sq.m.
The recommended lot area per inmate is 30 sq. m.

CELL CAPACITY
Floor area per inmate 4.7 sqm
Max inmates per cell 10

BJMP AND BUCOR GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
Conversion of 5’0 into m
1.55
1.52
1.53
1.54
PROCESSESS & OPERATIONS
RECEIVING & RELEASING
LEGAL GROUNDS FOR DETAINING A PERSON
1. Commission of the Crime

2. Violent insanity or any other ailment requiring compulsory
confinement in a hospital.
WHEN JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION IN CRIMINAL CASE BECOMES FINAL
 After the lapse of period for perfecting an appeal

 When the sentence has been partially or totally satisfied or
served;
 When the accused expressly waives in writing his right to appeal;
 When the accused applies for probation;
RECEIVING
GATER RECORDS UNIT HEALTH UNIT
DESK OFFICER PROPERTY CUSTODIAN BOOKING
ORIENTATION WARDEN
CHECKS COMPLETENESS OF RECORD
GATER COMMITTMENT / MITTIMUS ORDER
COMPLAINT / INFORMATION
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE
POLICE BOOKING SHEET
CERTIFICATE OF DETENTION (PNP / NBI)
(shakedown & search)
RECORDS CHECKS AUTHENTICITY OF THE RECORDS
UNIT
COMMITMENT ORDER written record issued by a competent authority
purpose: for safekeeping

pendency of the case
warrant issued by court (signed by judge, seal of court,

MITTIMUS ORDER attest by clerk of court
purpose: for service of sentence

Courts and Entities Authorized to Commit a Person to Jail
 Supreme Court
 Court of Appeals
 Regional Trial Court
 Metropolitan /Municipal Court
 Municipal Circuit trial court
 Board of Transportation
 Deportation Board
 Commission on election
 National Prosecution Service
 Police Authorities
 All on other administrative bodies as may
 be authorized by law
CONTRABAND - any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail
rules that would pose as security hazards or endanger the lives of inmates.
Illegal contraband - unlawful in itself and not because of some extraneous

circumstance (i.e. dangerous drugs, weapons, potential weapons, explosives)
Merely prohibited and nuisance contraband - are those that may not be classified
as illegal under the law but are forbidden by jail rules.(i.e. cellphone, money or
other commodities of exchange such as jewelry, appliances and gadgets,
excessive wearing apparels and sleeping paraphernalia, intoxicating liquors,
cigarettes, pornographic materials, gambling paraphernalia and other products
that are considered vices).
PAT/FRISK SEARCH - is a search wherein the officer pats or squeezes the subject’s
clothing to attempt to detect contraband. For same gender searches the Pat/Frisk
search is normally accomplished in concert with Rub Search.
RUB SEARCH - is a search wherein the officer rubs and/or pats the subject’s body
over the clothing, but in a more intense and thorough manner. In a rub search, the
genital, buttocks, and breast (of females) areas are carefully rubbed-areas, which are
not searched in a frisk/pat search. Rub searches shall not be conducted on cross-
gender individuals.
STRIP SEARCH - is a search, which involves the visual inspection of disrobed or

partially disrobed subject.
VISUAL BODY CAVITY SEARCH - is a search, which involves the inspection of the anus
and/or vaginal area, generally requiring the subject to bend over and spread the
cheeks of the buttocks; to squat and/or otherwise expose body cavity orifices.
HEALTH UNIT ASSESS:
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION USING THE MED CERT
DENTAL
SOCIAL AND CASE STUDY
PSYCHOLOGICAL
PSYCHIATRIC
RISK ASSESSMENT
---- CASE MANAGER
RECORDS UNIT Booking process

(jail booking sheet, NIMS, strip search for
marks/tattoos, fingerprint, photograph, listing
of authorized visitors, dialect)
Preventive imprisonment
PREVENTIVE IMPRISONMENT
ACT 3815 (RPC) + Art. 29  RA 10592 Sec. 1

RA 10592 (from Art. 29 - Act 3815)
Sec 1. PREVENTIVE IMPRISONMENT (for detainee’s only)
Certification under oath refused (4/5 or 80%)

Detainee’s manifestation agree (100%)
RA 10592
preventive imprisonment (for detainee’s only)
Disqualification:
 When they are recidivists, or have been convicted previously twice or more
times of any crime; and
 When upon being summoned for the execution of their sentence they have
failed to surrender voluntarily.
RA 10592
“Whenever an accused has undergone preventive imprisonment for a period

equal to the possible maximum imprisonment of the offense charged to which he
may be sentenced and his case is not yet terminated, he shall be released
immediately without prejudice to the continuation of the trial thereof or the
proceeding on appeal, if the same is under review.
In case the maximum penalty to which the accused may be sentenced

is destierro, he shall be released after thirty (30) days of preventive
imprisonment.”
RA 10592 (ART 29)
Computation of preventive imprisonment for purposes of immediate release

shall be the actual period of detention with good conduct time allowance.
That if the accused is absent without justifiable cause at any stage of the trial,
the court may motu proprio order the rearrest of the accused: Provided,
finally, That recidivists, habitual delinquents, escapees and persons charged
with heinous crimes are excluded from the coverage of this Act.
ACT 3815 RA 10592
(Art. 29) (Sec 1)
CREDIT FOR FULL CREDIT - AGREED
PREVENTIVE 1/2 4/5 - DISAGREED
IMPRISONEMENT
DISQUALIFICATION recidivists, or have been convicted recidivists, or have been convicted previously twice or
previously twice or more more
failed to surrender voluntarily failed to surrender voluntarily (summoned)

(summoned)
convicted of robbery, theft, estafa,

malversation of public funds, falsification,
vagrancy, or prostitution
MAY BE RELEASED - PI is equal to possible max imprisonment that may be
charged (except recidivists, habitual delinquents,
escapees and persons charged with heinous crimes)
If possible imprisonment is destierro + 30 days

PROPERTY COLLECTS PDL’s properties that is
CUSTODIAN prohibited inside the jail
DESK OFFICER Books in jail blotter

Assigns to a reception area for orientation and classification
CLASSIFICATION
- refers to assigning or grouping of inmates according to their
respective penalty, gender, age, nationality, health, criminal records,
etc.
- determine the cell assignment

- the appropriate rehabilitative program
- the type of supervision and;
- degree of custody and restrictions applicable to the inmate/s.
CLASSIFICATION BOARD
- conduct background investigation of inmates to determine the
work assignment, type of supervision and degree of custody and
restrictions under which an inmate must live in jail.
CHAIRMAN BJMP - Asst. Warden

BUCOR - Penal Supt
MEMBERS Chief, Custodial/Security Office

Medical Officer/Public Health officer
Jail Chaplain
Inmates Welfare and Development Officer
staff members:
1. The Psychiatrist + responsible in the examination of the prisoner’s mental

and emotional make-up.
2. The Psychologist + responsible to conduct study on the character and

behavior of the prisoners.
3. The Sociologist + study the social case situation of the individual prisoner.
4. The Educational Counselor + conducts orientation classes in order to

change inmates’ attitude towards education and recommends educational
program for the prisoner.
staff members:
5. The Vocational Counselor + to test the prisoner’s special abilities, interest

and skills and recommends for the vocational course best suited to the
prisoner.
6. The Chaplain + encourage the prisoner to participate in religious activities.
7. The Medical Officer + conducts physical examination and recommends

medical treatment of prisoners.
8. Custodial-Correctional Officer + recommends the transfer and type of

custody of inmates.
FOUR (4) SEPARATE BUT COORDINATED CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE
1) Diagnosis
+ Prisoner’s case history is taken and his personality is being studied
through examination and observations.
2) Treatment Planning
+ it is the formulation of tentative treatment programs suited for the
prisoner.
3) Execution of the Treatment Program

+ it is the application of the treatment programs and policies by the
classification committee.
4) Re-classification
+ Treatment program is kept current with the inmates changing needs.
CLASSIFICATION
according to:
gender with alcoholic withdrawal symptoms

age drug offender
with special needs drug dependence
female escape prone
LGBTQIA+ impaired / sick
senior with suicidal tendency
sex deviant / offender pregnant
FEMALE
✓ quarter fully separated from the male

✓ All handling and supervision of female offenders/detainees must be
done by female jail staff
✓ keys to the women’s quarters and should be available at any time.
✓ No male offender shall be allowed to enter the women’s quarters
✓ Only work suitable to their age and physical condition should be
assigned to female inmates.
DRUG USERS/DEPENDENTS
✓segregated from other offenders, especially during the withdrawal period.

✓Close supervision of inmates should be maintained to prevent attempts to commit
suicide or self-mutilation.
✓Only a qualified physician shall prescribe sedatives/stimulants
✓Appropriate measures should be taken to enable inmates to follow strictly the jail
physician’s advice regarding diet and other medical intervention/treatments
MENTALLY-ILL
✓The mentally-ill should be under the close supervision of a jailphysician

✓The mentally-ill should be placed in the individual cell and special restraint rooms
provided for violent cases
✓Close supervision should be maintained to guard against suicide attempts or violent
attacks on others
✓The mentally-ill should be transferred to mental institutions for proper psychiatric
treatment
SEX DEVIATES
✓The homosexual should be segregated immediately to prevent from

influencing other offenders or maltreated or abused by other inmates; and
✓The other sex deviates, likewise, should be separated from other inmates for
closer supervision and control
SUICIDAL INMATES
✓The suicide risk prisoner/detainees should be given close and constant

supervision;
✓Search their quarters and premises for tools/material that can be used for
suicide; and
✓ They should be subjected to frequent strip searches
NON-PHILIPPINE CITIZEN INMATES
✓The Warden shall report in writing the Bureau of Immigration

and the respective embassies of the detained foreigners
THE HANDICAPPED AGED AND INFIRM
✓The handicapped should be housed separately and closely supervised to protect

them from maltreatment or abuse by other offenders
✓Special treatment should be given to these prisoners who should be required to
work only in accordance with their physical capabilities for their own up keep to
maintain the sanitation of their quarters and surroundings
ESCAPE-PRONE INMATES
✓The escape-prone prisoners/detainees’ should be held in the

most secured quarters, preferably in single cells
✓Their conduct should be closely supervised and their actuations
observed during and after visiting hours
✓Their quarters should be search frequently and subject to
frequent strip search
✓Their telephone calls should be restricted and its use should be
allowed only if monitored on an extension
CLASSIFICATION (SECURITY RISK)
HIGH PROFILE intense media coverage or public concern as a result

of their offense
INMATE
considered highly dangerous based on their capability of

HIGH RISK INMATE escape, of being rescued, and their ability to launch
or spearhead acts of violence
in possession of critical intelligence, data, or authority
HIGH VALUE TARGET
(HVT)
SECURITY THREAT gang, organization or association consisting of three or
more members
GROUP
SUBVERSIVE GROUP adopts or advocates subversive principles or policies
tending to overthrow or undermine an
established government.
a group of persons that commits CRIME AGAINST
TERRORIST GROUP NATIONAL SECURITY
VIOLENT
a person whose political or religious ideologies are
EXTREMIST considered far outside the mainstream attitudes of
OFFENDER (VEO) the society or who violates common moral standards
those who represent a moderate risk to the public and
MEDIUM staff.
RISK INMATES These inmates still require greater security, control and
supervision as they might escape from and might commit
violence inside the jail.
MINIMUM RISK
those inmates who have lesser tendencies to commit
INMATES offenses and generally pose the least risk to public
(ORDINARY safety. In most cases, they may be first time offenders and
are charged with light offenses.
INMATES)
High Profile Inmate - those who require increased security based on intense media
coverage or public concern as a result of their offense such as but not limited to those
who have been involved in a highly controversial or sensationalized crime or those
who became prominent for being a politician, government official, multi-million
entrepreneur, religious or cause-oriented group leader and movie or television
personality.
High Risk Inmate - those who are considered highly dangerous and who require a
greater degree of security, control and supervision because of their deemed capability
of escape, of being rescued, and their ability to launch or spearhead acts of violence
inside the jail. This includes those charged with heinous crimes such as murder,
kidnapping for ransom, economic sabotage, syndicated or organized crimes, etc. Also
included are inmates with military or police trainings or those whose life is in danger
or under imminent threat.
High Value Target (HVT) - a target, either a resource or a person, who may
either be an enemy combatant, high ranking official or a civilian in danger of
capture or death, typically in possession of critical intelligence, data, or
authority marked as an objective for a mission and which a commander
requires for the successful completion of the same.
Security Threat Group - any formal or informal ongoing inmates’ group, gang,
organization or association consisting of three or more members falling into
one of the following basic categories: street gangs, prison gangs, outlaw
gangs, traditional organized crime, aboriginal gangs, subversive groups and
terrorist organizations.
Subversive Group - a group of persons that adopts or advocates subversive
principles or policies tending to overthrow or undermine an established
government.
Terrorist Group - a group of persons that commits any of the following: piracy
and mutiny in the high seas or in the Philippine waters, rebellion or
insurrection, coup d’état, murder, kidnapping and serious illegal detention,
crimes involving destruction, arson, hijacking, violation of laws on toxic
substances and hazardous and nuclear waste control, violations of atomic
energy regulations, anti-piracy and anti-highway robbery, illegal and unlawful
possession, manufacture, dealing in, acquisition or disposition of firearms,
ammunitions or explosives.
Violent Extremist Offender (VEO) - a person whose political or religious
ideologies are considered far outside the mainstream attitudes of the society or
who violates common moral standards and who has adopted an increasingly
extreme ideals and aspirations resorting to the employment of violence in the
furtherance of his/her beliefs.
Medium Risk Inmates -those who represent a moderate risk to the public and
staff. These inmates still require greater security, control and supervision as
they might escape from and might commit violence inside the jail.
Minimum Risk Inmates (Ordinary Inmates) - those inmates who have lesser
tendencies to commit offenses and generally pose the least risk to public safety.
In most cases, they may be first time offenders and are charged with light
offenses.
ORIENTATION using the Inmate’s Orientation Sheet
about:
 rights against corporal punishment

 GCTA
 STAL
 Therapeutic Community
ORIENTATION
rights against corporal punishment:
 physical torture
 mutilation
 monotonous activity
 branding
ORIENTATION
GCTA (GOOD CONDUCT TIME ALLOWANCE)
ACT 3815 (RPC) + ART 94, 97, 99  RA 10592 Sec. 2, 3, 5

ORIENTATION
What is RA 10592?
 amended Articles 29, 94, 97, 98, and 99 of the RPC, which sought to:
 expand the application of the GCTA to those under preventive imprisonment or
those detained prior and during criminal trial, who are deemed too dangerous
for release;
 increase the number of days that may be credited for GCTA;
 allow an additional sentence deduction of 15 days for each month of study,
teaching, or mentoring service; and
 expand the special time allowance for loyalty and make it applicable to those
under preventive imprisonment.
ORIENTATION
WHO CAN AVAIL GCTA?
Inmates who display good behavior and no record of breach of

discipline or violation of prison rules and regulations.
ORIENTATION
EXCLUDED ?
1. When they are recidivists, or have been convicted previously twice or

more times of any crime; and
2. When upon being summoned for the execution of their sentence they have
failed to surrender voluntarily.
ORIENTATION
WHO CAN GRANT GCTA?
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF BUCOR

JAIL DIRECTOR OF BJMP
WARDEN OF C, M, P, D JAILS
YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT
RA 10592 (NEW)
REDUCTION
FIRST 2 YEARS 20 DAYS
3RD TO 5TH YEAR 23 DAYS
6TH TO 10TH YEAR 25 DAYS
11TH YEAR AND UP 30 DAYS
ANYTIME DURING 15 DAYS
IMPRISONMENT
(FOR STUDY, MENTORING,
AND TEACHING)
ACT 3815 RA 10592
WHO MAY EARN GCTA serving sentence serving sentence
undergoing preventive
imprisonment
CREDIT FOR STUDY, - 15 days each month

TEACHING OR MENTORING
SERVICE
WHO GRANTS director of prisons director of bucor

chief of bjmp
warden of cmdp
DEDUCTIONS - 15 +15
YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT
RA 3815 (OLD) RA 10592 (NEW)
REDUCTION REDUCTION
FIRST 2 YEARS 5 DAYS 20 DAYS
3RD TO 5TH YEAR 8 DAYS 23 DAYS
6TH TO 10TH YEAR 10 DAYS 25 DAYS
11TH YEAR AND UP 15 DAYS 30 DAYS
ANYTIME DURING NO PROVISION 15 DAYS

IMPRISONMENT
(FOR STUDY, MENTORING,
AND TEACHING)
ORIENTATION
STAL (SPECIAL TIME ALLOWANCE)
ACT 3815 (RPC) + ART 98  RA 10592 Sec. 4, 5
a reduction of sentence given to a prisoner who stays or escape during a

calamity and surrendered / returned within 48 hours after the
proclamation of passing of the calamity.
ORIENTATION
STAY REDUCTION OF 2 / 5 OF
ORIGINAL SENTENCE
ESCAPE
(RETURNED WITHIN 48 HRS) REDUCTION OF 1 /5
FROM ORIG SENTENCE
(IF DID NOT RETURNED) ADDITIONAL 1 /5

ORIENTATION
STAL (SPECIAL TIME ALLOWANCE)
WHO CAN GRANT STAL?
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF BUCOR

JAIL DIRECTOR OF BJMP
WARDEN OF C, M, P, D JAILS
JAIL WARDEN
Coordinates with concerned agencies regarding the case of inmate for
speedy disposition and to furnish them with copies of the available needed
documents.
The jail warden shall see to it that all concerned agencies and persons will be
informed of the commitment of the inmate in his/her jail by submitting a
written report.
Through his/her paralegal officer, he/she shall ensure that the courts and
prosecutors’ office are attending to the case of the inmate by constantly
coordinating with them for the purpose of speeding up the disposition of the
case. For this purpose, the sharing of non-confidential information with the
concerned agencies is encouraged.
The following agencies/persons shall be notified by the warden upon commitment
of the inmate:
1. Presiding Judge - (monthly submission of list of committed inmates to the

presiding judge is mandatory)
2. Executive Judge/ BJMP Comprehensive Operations Manual 2015 Edition
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Page 15
Clerk of court - (monthly submission of committed inmates is mandatory)
3. PNP - mandatory
4. NBI - mandatory
5. Family - mandatory
6. PAO lawyer - in case of indigent inmate
7. IBP legal aide - in case of indigent inmate and unavailability of PAO lawyer
The following agencies/persons shall be notified by the warden upon commitment
of the inmate:
8. Private lawyer - upon request

9. Priest or religious
minister - upon request
10. Private physician - upon request
11. Commission on
Human Rights - as needed/to submit list of committed inmates monthly
12. Public physician - as needed
13. Psychologist/
Psychiatrist - as needed
14. Embassy - mandatory in case of foreign national/alien
15. DSWD - mandatory in case of CICL
16. Court/
Other branches - in case of multiple cases
These are any materials prohibited by jail rules.
Illegal contraband
Nuisance contraband
Contraband
These are any materials prohibited by jail rules and by law.
Illegal contraband
Nuisance contraband
Contraband
These are any materials prohibited by law.
Illegal contraband
Nuisance contraband
Contraband
Medical certificate shall be performed/executed +
24h after committing the PDL

24h prior to the commitment of PDL
24h during the commitment of PDL
This refers to the document issued by a judge entrusting a
PDL in a jail/prison for the purpose of service of sentence.
Commitment order
Mittimus order
This refers to the document issued by a competent authority
entrusting a PDL in a jail/prison for the purpose of
safekeeping.
Commitment order
Mittimus order
a document signed by a PDL upon agreeing to preventive
imprisonment 100%
certification
manifestation
how many days is the classification in BJMP?
30
60
55
5
how many days is the classification in BUCOR?
30
60
55
5
how many days is the quarantine for classifying PDL in BUCOR?
30
60
55
5
If pedro is sentenced to imprisonment of 20 years and have
been serving for 3 years with good behavior, how much
GCTA he will receive?
20
23
25
30
15
If pedro is sentenced to imprisonment of 20 years and have been
serving for 13 years with good behavior, how much GCTA he will
receive?
20
23
25
30
15
If pedro is sentenced to imprisonment of 20 years and have been
serving for 2 years with good behavior while he is also practicing
teaching inside the jail, how much GCTA he will receive?
20
23
25
30
15
RELEASING
AN INMATE MAY BE RELEASED THROUGH:
SERVICE OF SENTENCE
ORDER OF THE COURT
PAROLE
PARDON
AMNESTY
WHO MAY AUTHORIZE RELEASE
The following are authorized to order or approve the release of inmates:
a. the Supreme Court or lower courts, in cases of acquittal or grant of bail;
b. the President of the Philippines
c. the Board of Pardons and Parole
d. the Director, upon the expiration of the sentence of the inmate

RELEASE OF INMATE
 properly identified to ensure that he/she is the same person received
and is subject of release.
 no inmate shall be released on a mere verbal order or an order

relayed via telephone. The release of an inmate by reason of acquittal,
dismissal of case, payment of fines and/or indemnity, or filing of bond,
shall take effect only upon receipt of the release order served by the
court process server
RELEASE OF INMATE
 upon proper verification from the court of the authenticity of the
order, an inmate shall be released promptly and without
unreasonable delay;
 The released inmate shall be issued a certification of discharge from

jail by the warden or his/her authorized representative.
RELEASING
DESK OFFICER PARALEGAL OFFICER RECORDS UNIT
receives release order checks authenticity of release order Checks inmates record with release order
Routes signatories
Checks if no pending cases
Records inmates condition upon release
JAIL WARDEN DESK OFFICER PROPERTY CUSTODIAN

shall notify the following agencies/persons:
 Barangay Captain - mandatory
 Priest or religious minister -
mandatory
 Family - if release is not witnessed by
any member of immediate family
 Court - in case of convicted inmate
RELEASE OF INMATE
Upon expiration of sentence; by order of the court or competent authority; after
being granted parole, pardon or amnesty. Take note the following;
 60 days before and 30 days after an election no release of inmate except for
valid or legal reasons
 30 days before his scheduled date of release, inmate shall be put in Separation
and Placement Centre to prepare him for re-entry into free society.
All inmates eligible for release shall undergo a one day seminar for preparation
of his life outside the prison.
FOR DEATH CONVICT
DP  AUTOMATIC REVIEW (SC)
 REPRIEVE/COMMUTATION BY OP
PDL  STAYS IN DEATH ROW (4 SHIFTS OF CUSTODIAL (4HRS))
12 HRS BEFORE EXECUTION  TRANSFERRED TO EXECUTION

ROOM
3PM + EXECUTION SCHEDULE
RA 9346 + prohibition of death penalty

PROCESSING PDL’s VIOLATION AND COMPLAINT
PROCESS IF THE PDL VIOLATES RULES INSIDE THE JAIL / PRISON
COMPLAINT
DESK OFFICER
WARDEN
INVESTIGATION UNIT
WARDEN GRAVE, LESS GRAVE BJMP  DISPLINARY BOARD
within 48 hours
BUCOR  BOARD OF DISCIPLINE
within 5 days
if the PDL rejects decision, appeal to OFFICE OF THE

WARDEN / PENAL SUPT decision if final and
executory
if DB / BD is unavailable, for grave and less grave violation

will be decided by the warden / supt 
SUMMARY DISCIPLINARY OFFICER
MINOR SUPT / WARDEN

DISCIPLINARY BOARD / BOARD OF DISCIPLINE
shall be organized and maintained by jails for the purpose of hearing
disciplinary cases involving any inmate who violate jail rules and regulations.
CHAIRMAN Deputy Warden / Penal Supt
MEMBERS Chief, Custodial/Security

Medical Officer/Public Health Officer
Jail Chaplain
Inmates Welfare and Development Officer
Inmates’ representative
The Disciplinary Board is the authority that can impose disciplinary punishments
such as:
DETAINEE’S:
a. Admonition or verbal reprimand;

b. Restitution or reparation;
c. Temporary or permanent cancellation of all or some recreational
privileges;
d. Reduction of visiting time;
e. Close confinement in a cell for a period not exceeding seven (7) days in any
calendar month, provided that this disciplinary action shall be imposed only
in the case of an incorrigible inmate, and when other disciplinary measures
had been proven ineffective; and
f. Transfer to another BJMP jail in the area, in coordination with the Court.
The Disciplinary Board is the authority that can impose disciplinary punishments
such as:
PRISONER:
g. Transfer to another BJMP jail in the area in coordination with the Court;
h. Suspension of visiting privileges for a period not exceeding one (1) month,
provided that this sanction shall not apply to the lawyer, physician or religious
minister serving the needs of the prisoner.
Permanent cancellation of visiting privileges with respect to persons not

included in the definition of immediate family under RA 7438, provided that this
sanction shall not apply to the lawyer, physician or religious minister serving
the needs of the prisoner.
In addition to the above-mentioned punishment, the disciplinary board may

recommend to the warden partial or full forfeiture of good conduct time
allowance (GCTA) to be earned for a particular month and subsequent months
depending upon the gravity of the offense.
LIMITATIONS OF PUNISHMENTS IMPOSED TO OFFENDERS
Under section 3, par. D, Rule XIV of the BJMP Manual states the limitations of
punishments imposed to offenders as:
1. No female offenders shall be subjected to any disciplinary punishment that may

affect her unborn or nursing child.
2. No Handicapped offender shall be made to suffer a punishment that might affect

his health or physical well-being.
3. Corporal punishment, confinement in dark, ill-ventilated cells and any other

form of cruel, unusual, inhumane or degrading punishment are absolutely
prohibited.
LIMITATIONS OF PUNISHMENTS IMPOSED TO OFFENDERS
4. Whenever the penalty of extra-fatigue duty or solitary confinement imposed

affect the health of the offender, medical examination shall be conducted to
determine his physical fitness to serve his punishment.
5. The jail physician shall visit the inmate undergoing punishment when necessary
and shall advise the warden if he recommends the termination of the punishment
on grounds of physical and mental health.
Instrument of restraint such as handcuffs, leg iron and straightjacket are not being
applied as a form of punishment. They shall only be used as a precaution against
escape or on ground of medical precautions to prevent the offender from injuring
himself or others.
Breaches of Discipline must be handled without anger or emotionalism and

decisions must be executed firmly and justly.
MINOR OFFENSES:
a. Selling or bartering with fellow inmate(s) those items not classified

as contraband;
b. Rendering personal service to fellow inmate(s); BJMP
Comprehensive Operations Manual Revised 2015 Page 22 Bureau of Jail
Management and Penology
c. Untidy or dirty personal appearance;
d. Littering or failing to maintain cleanliness and orderliness in his/her
quarters and/or surroundings;
e. Making frivolous or groundless complaints;
f. Taking the cudgels for or reporting complaints on behalf of other
inmates;
g. Reporting late for inmate formation and inmate headcount without
justifiable reasons; and
h. Willful waste of food.
LESS GRAVE OFFENSES:
a. Failure to report for work detail without sufficient justification;

b. Failure to render assistance to an injured personnel or inmate;
c. Failure to assist in putting out fires inside the jail;
d. Behaving improperly or acting boisterously during religious, social and
other group functions;
e. Swearing, cursing or using profane or defamatory language directed at
other persons;
f. Malingering or pretending to be sick to skip work assignment;
g. Spreading rumors or malicious intrigues to besmirch the honor of any
person, particularly BJMP personnel;
h. Failure to stand at attention and give due respect when confronted by or
reporting to any BJMP personnel;
i. Forcing fellow inmates to render personal service to him/her and/or to
others;
j. Exchanging uniforms or wearing clothes other than those issued to him/her
for the purpose of circumventing jail rules;
LESS GRAVE OFFENSES:
k. Loitering or being in an unauthorized place;

l. Using the telephone without authority from the desk officer/warden;
m. Writing, defacing, or drawing on walls, floors or any furniture or equipment;
n. Withholding information, which may be inimical or prejudicial to the jail
administration;
o. Possession of lewd or pornographic literature and/or photographs;
p. Absence from cell, brigade, place of work during headcount, or at any time
without justifiable reason; and
q. Failure to turn over any implement/article/s issued after work detail.
GRAVE OFFENSES:
a. Making untruthful statements or lies in any official communication,

transaction, or investigation;
b. Keeping or concealing keys or locks of places in the jail which are off-
limits to inmates;
c. Giving gifts, selling, or bartering items with jail personnel;
d. Keeping in his/her possession money, jewelry, cellular phones or other
communication devices and other items classified as contraband under the
rules;
e. Tattooing others or allowing him/her to be tattooed on any part of the
body, or keeping any paraphernalia to be used in tattooing;
f. Forcibly taking or extorting money from fellow inmates and visitors;
g. Punishing or inflicting injury or any harm upon himself/herself or other
inmates;
h. Receiving, keeping, taking or drinking liquor and prohibited drugs;
GRAVE OFFENSES:
i. Making, improvising or keeping any kind of deadly weapon;

j. Concealing or withholding information on plans of attempted escapes;
k. Unruly conduct and flagrant disregard for discipline and instructions;
l. Escaping, attempting or planning to escape from the institution or from
any guard;
m. Helping, aiding or abetting others to escape;
n. Fighting, causing any disturbance or participating therein and/or agitating
to cause such disturbance or riot;
o. Indecent, immoral or lascivious acts by himself/herself or others and/or
allowing himself/herself to be the subject of such indecent, immoral or
lascivious acts;
p. Willful disobedience to a lawful order issued by any BJMP personnel;
q. Assaulting any BJMP personnel;
GRAVE OFFENSES:
r. Damaging any government property or equipment;

s. Participating in kangaroo court, an unauthorized or irregular court
conducted with disregard for or perversion of legal procedures as a mock
court by the inmates in a jail/prison;
t. Affiliating with any gang or faction whose main purpose is to foment
regionalism or to segregate themselves from others;
u. Failing to inform the authorities concerned when afflicted with any
communicable disease, such as tuberculosis, sexually-transmitted
diseases, etc.;
v. Engaging in gambling or any game of chance;
w. Committing any act which violates any law or ordinance, in which case,
he/she shall be prosecuted criminally in accordance with law; and
x. Committing any act prejudicial to good order and discipline.
PROCESSING MAILS
PROCESS ON MAILS RECEIVED BY THE JAILS / PRISONS
PRISON POSTAL SERVICE - authorized to receive and send mails
CENSORSHIP UNIT -checks the mails

-stamps mail
OPERATION IN ELIMINATING CONTRABANDS
COUNTING OF PDL
TYPES OF COUNTING PROCEDURE:
MANDATORY / FORMAL
CENSUS / INFORMAL
EMERGENCY / LLOCKDOWN
TYPES OF COUNTING PROCEDURE:
MANDATORY / FORMAL
conducted at least 4 times within a 24 hour period, ensuring beyond
doubt that every inmate is accounted for.
CENSUS / INFORMAL
infrequent and in the nature of irregular check wherein inmates are
required to report to the nearest jail personnel present for accounting
purposes.
EMERGENCY / LLOCKDOWN
conducted as a security measure following a jail disturbance, riots or
escape incidents
during each 24-hour period, all inmates are physically counted:
a. Count each inmate physically at specified times or as necessary;
b. During the count, ensure that all movements of inmates are stopped until the
count is completed;
c. The count must be accurate. Make a positive verification to ascertain that the
inmates are physically present. Refrain from conducting a count on the basis of
only having seen any part of his clothing, hair or shoes;
d. Submit a report of each count of a group of inmates to the warden and/or

assistant warden (officer of the day); and
e. If the total jail count does not tally with the total jail population at any given
time, conduct another count. Render an immediate report to the warden and/or
assistant warden (officer of the day) relative to any unaccounted inmate.
SECURITY PROCEDURES DURING MEAL SERVICE
A jail officer should not enter the inmates’ quarters to distribute food unless another
officer is available to handle the keys and control the entrance door.
DINING ROOM SECURITY
a. As a general precaution, individual mess utensils of inmates shall be made of

plastic;
b. When dining rooms are provided, the inmates should march in columns of two’s
along designated routes under the supervision of jail personnel. Other officials to
direct the orderly movement of inmates to and from the mess hall must be
stationed along the routes;
c. Designate a roving supervisor to handle any disturbances or settle complaints;
d. After every meal, all utensils used by the inmates should be collected. Jail
personnel should strictly supervise this to ensure that no utensils are brought out
the dining room; and
e. Check and account
MOVEMENT/TRANSFER OF INMATES
1. To appear, as witness before any court of justice or prosecutor’s
office during preliminary investigation, arraignment or hearing of a
criminal case;
2. To appear as witness in any investigation or formal inquiry being

conducted by a government agency;
ESCORTING PDL TO COURT
COURT ORDER
PARALEGAL OFFICER
WARDEN
CUSTODIAL OFFICER CREATE ESCORT TEAM - TL, DRIVER, MEMBER
RECORDS UNIT PROVIDES COPY OF CARPETA TO CUSTODIAL TEAM
INTELLIGENCE UNIT CONDUCT RECONNAISSANCE

BRAKE
Lights
OIL
WATER
BATTERY
AIR
GAS
ENGINE
TIRE
SELF
ESCORT TEAM
ORDINARY 1:1+1
HP / HR 1: 3
at least 2 vehicle
Distance: 10 steps
Judge  witness: 1 ½ m
visit and furlough privileges
 within 30 / 3
 beyond 30 - escort: 1:3 - daylight
 detainee: min and med

The warden shall timely oppose the request and inform the court of his or her
inability to comply with the order:
1. The deceased relative is lying-in-state in a place beyond thirty kilometer radius from
the jail or, in any case, where the inmate cannot return to said place during daylight
hours;
2. The inmate has a record of escape or attempted escape;
3. The inmate has two (2) or more pending criminal cases or is a material witness in a
pending criminal case;
4. The inmate is classified as high risk, high profile, high value or violent extremist
offender;
5. The inmate cannot be assured of his safety and security, or his escape is highly possible;
and
6. There is an intelligence report that the inmate will escape or will be rescued.
process:
submit request
 BJMP - 3 days before visit

 BuCor - 2 days before visit
For Muslim inmates, within twenty-four (24) hours from the time of the death
of his or her/their relatives.
request  court order  bjmp  paralegal officer  warden  c/custodial

group (creates group tl, driver, mem)  records unit (carpeta)  custodial
unit (reconnaissance)
INCIDENT TEAMS
Jail Incident -any untoward or uncommon actions, events, or conditions such as
jail break, riot, noise barrage, stabbing or assault upon personnel that occurs in
jail and perpetrated by any person, which may or may not have followed or
depended upon another action of grave or serious consequences such as escape,
injury, death, fire, flood, earthquake, or other calamity which affects the jail.
Jail escape - it is an act of leaving from jail of an inmate through unofficial

and illegal ways or without any legal order from the authorities.
Jailbreak - the escape from jail by more than two (2) inmates by the use of
force, threat, violence or deceit or by breaching security barriers such as by
scaling the perimeter fence, by tunneling and/or by other similar means or by
burning or destructing of the facility or a portion of the facility with or without
the aid of jail officer or any other person.
PROCEDURE DURING AN ESCAPE OR JAILBREAK.
• When a jail break is in progress or has just occurred, the Control Center shall
immediately sound the alarm and the Superintendent or the Commander of the
Guards shall be notified.
• At the first sound of the alarm, all inmates shall be locked in their respective
cells while those in work detail shall be marched in orderly manner to their cells
In case of mass jail breaks, all members of the custodial force shall be
immediately issued firearms and assigned to critical posts to seal off all possible
escape routes while teams search the prison premises. Prison personnel who are
off-duty shall be required to report for duty immediately.
• If any prison officer or employee is held hostage by the escapee, reasonable

caution to insure safety shall be taken. If it is the Superintendent who is taken as
hostage, the Assistant Superintendent shall assume command
.
Lockdown - is a situation where the inmates, whether in whole or in part, control
the jail facility.
Lockdown of the whole jail facility - is a situation where the inmates control
the whole facility.
Lockdown of a portion of the jail facility - is a situation where inmates control

a portion of the jail facility.
Hostile act - a hostile act is an attack or other use of force by an inmate or

inmates against other inmate/s, visitor/s, jail personnel, jail properties and
facilities, or an attack against jail security.
Immediate Danger - is a situation of high probability that a hazard, condition or
activity caused by an inmate or group of inmates which will be injurious to
themselves, to jail personnel, visitor/s, or other inmate/s’ health and/or safety; or
harmful to jail facilities and security is so likely to exist or occur almost
immediately and without warning.
Imminent Danger - any condition or practice in a place of employment where such

a danger exist which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious
physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be
eliminated through the procedures.
NOISE BARRAGE
is a situation where inmates create loud , unpleasant sounds in order
to express their demands and grievances over issues usually related
to the management of jail
RIOT
is a large scale disorganized brawl or combat between inmate usually
due to long standing conflict
Assault
is a situation where violence, threat and intimidation by inmates is
directed against fellow inmate, civilian or any jail personnel.
Hostage/s
a person or persons, who may be an inmate, jail personnel or civilian,
held by another inmate or inmates as a guarantee that certain actions
or promises will or will not be carried out.
PROCEDURE DURING RIOTS AND DISTURBANCES
1. Sound the alarm
2. All visitors shall be immediately ushered out the prison
3. All guards who are not on duty shall be directed to immediately report to the
Desk Officer. The most senior guard present shall take command of the custodial
force and make assessment of the situation.
4. All telephone calls to and from the prison compound shall be controlled.
5.The Armorer shall issue the necessary anti-riot equipment and firearms.
6.Based on his assessment of the prevailing conditions, the guard in command

shall deploy the guards into the following groups: (1st, 2nd and 3rd group)
USE OF FORCE CONTINUUM
The use of force continuum is an escalating level of force commencing

from no force, to non-deadly force and ultimately, to deadly force.
No Force - is a part of the use of force continuum where no force is used simply
because the situation does not call for it. It includes the mere presence of the
jail officers and verbalization and is usually effective when inmates are not
violent
Non-deadly Force - is the use of physical force towards an inmate with any
device other than deadly force or firearm designed to temporarily incapacitate
an inmate. Non-deadly force can be classified into three: physical contact,
chemical/electrical and other inflammatory agents and impact weapons.
Deadly Force - is force that a person uses, or that a person knows or should
know would create a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily harm
such as firearm. This includes the threatened use of deadly force such as
drawing of firearm. Non- deadly force can also escalate into deadly force when
directed towards fatal part of the body such as head. Since it is calculated to
cause death, it is usually, the last resort in the use of force continuum.
CMT
CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
TEAM
QRT 10 MAN WEAPON UNIT

QUICK
RESPONSE 5 MAN NEGOTIATION UNIT
TEAM
STAR
SPECIAL TACTICS 20 PERSONNEL
& REPSONSE
TEAM
SPECIAL TACTICS AND RESPONSE (STAR) TEAM
It is an elite tactical unit trained to perform high-risk
operations that falls outside the operational abilities of the regular BJMP
personnel and is equipped with specialized skills and sophisticated firearms
and equipment.
Duties and Responsibilities
 Shall serve as the last resort in addressing crisis in jail.

 Shall augment the force during court hearings of high risk/high profile
inmates and other similar tasks.
 Escorts high ranking/key officers and other dignitaries of state.
 Performs other task/functions as the Chief, BJMP/Regional Director may
direct
WHO TO CALL IN TIMES OF RIOT / DISTURBANCES INSIDE THE
JAIL?
LEVEL
A CMT
B QRT
C ADJACENT QRT
D STAR
E AFP / LE
1ST GROUP
disperse rioter
gets the leader of the riot / gang
baton group involved
shield
head gear
gas mask
2ND GROUP waits for the GC to go signal for

the application of tear gas
tear gas
3RD GROUP applies maximum tolerance before

firearm using the firearm
TREATMENT PROGRAMS
1. PRISON EDUCATION
Prison education is the cornerstone of rehabilitation. It is the process or

result of formal training in school or classrooms intended to shape the mind
and attitude of prisoners toward good living upon their releasing.
Objective of Prison Education:
1. To return the prisoner to society with a more wholesome attitude

towards living,
2. To conduct themselves as good citizens,
3. To give them knowledge and develop their skills to maintain
themselves and their dependents through honest labor.
Classes of Prison Education
1. General and Academic Education

+ the objective of which is to eradicate illiteracy among prisoners. This could be
the best contribution of correctional system can offer to society.
2. Vocational Education
+ Institutional maintenance works and industrial projects, the purpose of which is
to provide prisoners necessary skills for successful works in a socially acceptable
occupation after their release.
Courses may include:

Radio Mechanics, Auto Mechanics, Horticulture, Shoemaking, Tailoring, Carpentry,
Electronics, etc.
Classes of Prison Education
3. Physical Education
+ designed for those who have physical disabilities.
4. Work Programs
These are programs conducive to change behaviour in morale by training

prisoners for a useful occupation. It is purposely to eliminate idleness on the
part of the prisoners, which may contribute to “Prison stupor” and its effects the
incidence of prison riot.
Classification of Prison Work Programs:
1. Educational Assignments
+ prisoners maybe assigned to either general education, vocational or physical
education.
2. Maintenance Assignment
+ this assignment involves labor related to care and up keeping of the
institution properties.
Classification of Prison Work Programs:
3. Agricultural and Industrial Assignments
4. Unassignable
+ Prisoners who are nearly to leave the institution, awaiting transfer, those in the
disciplinary status, and those who are chronically ill with mental disabilities are
considered unassignable prisoners. Female prisoners shall be assigned to work on
jobs suitable to their age, sex and physical conditions. Prisoners over 60 years of age
may be excused from hard work.
2. RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN PRISON
The purpose of this program is to change the attitudes of inmates by
inculcating religious values or belief.
Function of Chaplain:
1. Conduct communion and confession to inmates,
2. Conduct religious ministry such as preaching the Bible,
3. Conduct private and personal counseling,
4. Other chaplaincy services.
Administrative Function of the Chaplain:

1. Member of the RDC staff,
2. Member of the Classification Committee,
3. Render Evaluation to the BPP.
3. RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS
The only program that is conducted during free time schedule with the following
objectives:
1. Mental and Physical Development

2. Help prisoner to become aware of their individual conditions to provide them a
method of improvement.
3. Development of cooperative competitions,
4. Arouse the interest of the prisoners in recreational programs.
Activities of recreation may include Athletics/sports, music and arts, social

games, special activities on special events etc.
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
Medical and health services include:
1. Mental and physical Examination

2. Diagnosis and treatment
3. Immunization
4. Sanitary inspections
5. Participation in training
COUNSELING AND CASEWORK
Objectives of Counseling
1. Immediate solution of specific personal problem,

2. Help inmates to increase self-understanding,
Objectives of Casework
1. To obtain clear description of social history,

2. Solving immediate problems, involving family problems or other personal
relationship,
3. Assist inmates toward acceptable solution,
4. Support inmates, who are nearly release by giving them guidance or
information,
5. Professional assistance to offenders on probation or parole.
INSTITUTIONAL CUSTODY, SECURITY,
AND CONTROL
DIVERSIFICATION is an administrative device of correctional institutions of
providing varied and flexible types of physical plants for the more effective custody,
security and control of the treatment programs of its diversified population.
Diversification is the principle of separating homogenous types of prisoners that

requires special treatment and custody. Separation can be done through proper
classification of inmates.
How is diversification carried out?
It can be done either building special institution for different classes of prisoners
through proper segregation of inmates that is big institution can be broken into a
smaller unit.
Aims of Diversification
1. More effective execution of the treatment programs,

2. To prevent prisoners from moral and physical contamination of one group by
another,
3. To prevent unnecessary custodial risks.
SECURITY + It involves safety measures to maintain the orderliness
and discipline with in the jail or prison.
CONTROL + It involves supervision of prisoners to ensure punctual and

orderly movement from one place work program or assignment to another.
Essential Requisite for Sound Custody, Security and Control
1. Adequate system of classification of prisoners

2. Regular inspections
3. Adequate system of counting
4. Set of rules of control and safety precautions
5. Plan for the control of contraband and equipment
6. Keying system
7. Emergency plan
A facility or a place of confinement for inmates who
of 6 months to 3 years
A. CITY JAIL
B. DISTRICT JAIL
C. MUNICIPAL JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
This Act shall be known as the “Bureau of Fire
Protection and Bureau of Jail Management and
Penology Professionalization Act of 2004.”
A. RA 6975
B. RA 9070
C RA 9263
D RA 9592
Within large cities or a group of clustered
municipalities, a ________ may be established
A. CITY JAIL
B. MUNICIPAL JAIL
C. DISTRICT JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
A facility or a place of confinement for inmates
coming from a city or clustered municipalities who
of one (1) day to three (3) years.
A. CITY JAIL
B. DISTRICT JAIL
C. MUNICIPAL JAIL
D. PROVINCIAL JAIL
A suffering inflicted to an individual for having been
committed an offense.
A. PENALTY
B. PUNISHMENT
C. IMPRISONMENT
D. INCARCERATION
Who among the following has the authority to grant
Good Conduct Time Allowance?
A. DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS

B. CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND
PENOLOGY
C. WARDEN OF A PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL OR
CITY JAIL
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
The period of deducted sentence granted to a prisoner
who escaped on the occasion of disorder arising from
conflagrations, earthquakes or catastrophe where he
voluntarily surrender within 48 hours following the
issuance of a proclamation announcing the termination
of such disorder.
a 1/5 period of sentence of sentence

b. 2/5 period of sentence of sentence
c. 1/2 period of sentence of sentence
d none
The features of the prison system were confinement
of the prisoners in these cells day and night.
A. PENNSYLVANIA
B. MAMERTIME
C. AUBURN
D. ALCATRAZ
A written order of the court, or any other agency
authorized by law to issue, entrusting an inmate to a
jail for the purpose of safekeeping during the
pendency of his/her case.
A. COMMITMENT ORDER
B. MITTIMUS
C. CARPETA
D. WARRANT OF ARREST
Are those inmates who are physically or mentally
weak for a prolonged period of time specifically
caused by age or illness.
A. INFIRMED INMATES
B. INMATES WITH DISABILITIES
C. SICKLY INMATES
D. PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE INMATES
An inmate who is about to be released shall be
proceeded at the separation and placement center
for how many days before his actual release.
A. 25 DAYS
B. 30 DAYS
C. 35 DAYS
D. 60 DAYS
Which of the following is a place for the
confinement of minimum security prisoner?
A. CAMP SAMPAGUITA
B. BUKANG LIWAYWAY
C. QUARANTINE UNIT
D. RDC
The Sablayan penal colony is located at.
A. OCCIDENTAL MINDORO
B. ORIENTAL MINDORO
C. LEYTE
D. PALAWAN
Use of telephone of inmate in prison after showing a
good behavior is earned after 90 days. In such case
an inmate is entitled to.
A. 5 MINUTES
B. 3 MINUTES
C NOT EXCEEDING 5 MINUTES
D. NOT EXCEEDING 3 MINUTES
Is an escalating level of force commencing from no
force, to non-deadly force and ultimately, to deadly
force.
A. MAXIMUM TOLERANCE
B. FORCE CONTINUUM
C. FORCE MOMENTUM
D. NONE OF THESE
It refers to the institutional records of the inmates.
A. PRISON RECORD
B CARPETA
C. MITTIMUS
D. COMMITMENT
Books the newly committed inmate in the jail blotter;
assigns the inmate to a reception area, if any, where
he/she shall be scheduled for orientation on jail
rules and regulation.
A. GATER
B. RECORDS UNIT
C. HEALTH UNIT
D. DESK OFFICER
It is amendment and penitence model of prison built
in 1620’s were communication among the prisoners
was next to impossible, prisoners are individually
isolated.
A. PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM
B. AUBURN PRISON
C. MAMMERTIME PRISON
D. JUSTINIAN PRISON
MANUEL IS A _____ PRISONER WITH A SENTENCE OF
6 MONTHS AND 1 DAY.
A. DISTRICT
B. CITY
C .MUNICIPAL
D. PROVINCIAL
An infant born while the mother is serving sentence
in the CIW may be allowed to stay with the mother
for a period not exceeding .
A. 6 MONTHS
B. 8 MONTHS
C 1 YEAR
D. 2 YEARS

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CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION

PENOLOGY OFFICER ELIGIBLE

NATIONAL REVIEW LECTURER

CUM LAUDE + HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE

HCDC ALUMNA 2022

A. DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS

a. 1/5 period of sentence of sentence

 functions, organization, administration,

 principles, management, planning, and

concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal

it is a generic term that includes all the government agencies, facilities,

 LT: POENA  PAIN/SUFFERING / PUNISHMENT

Principal Aims of Penology:

1. To bring light in the ethical barriers of punishment, along with the

2. To make comparative study of penal laws and procedures through

3. To evaluate the social consequences of the policies enforced at a

it refers to the study and practice of a systematic management of jails

refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling plases of

primary  protection of society

REFORMATION- means amending or improving by changing inmate's behavior

REINTEGRATION + re-introducing of offender to the community

RESTORATIVE + the process of resolving conflict with the maximum

1. Classical School + the doctrine of psychological hedonism or

2. Neo-Classical School + children, insane, and imbecile must

3. Positivist/Italian School + criminality is measured and

1. Code of Draco (Athenian)

 dura lex sed lex

2. Code of King Hammurabi (Babylonian)

 lex taliones (retaliation)

3. if a man commits a kidnapping, he is to be

4. The Twelve Tables (XII Tabulae), (451-450 BC)

 foundation of all public and private law of the Romans

5. The Burgundian Code (500 A.D)

 specified punishment according to the social class of the offenders

the infliction of death as a

execution of an offender sentenced to

effected by maiming, mutilation,

putting the offender into shame or

the sending or putting away of an offender

4. BURNING AT THE STAKE

abolished by virtue of act 451

 electrocuted at the age of 16 on October 4,

 first filipino to be executed after its

"sámbayanáng pilipino, patawarin ako sa

 AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY

 Signed on June 24, 2006

 Former Pres. GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

1. Hard Labor + productive works

4. INCAPACITATION AND PROTECTION

BENEFIT OF THE CLERGY

1. Productive of suffering + without however affecting the

1. RECLUSION PERPETUA - 20 years to 40 yrs

3. REFORMATION + the object of punishment in criminal cases is to correct and reform

1. RETRIBUTION OR EXPIATION + the penalty is commensurate with the gravity

2. CORRECTIVE OR REFORMATION + as shown by the rules which regulates the

3. SOCIAL DEFENSE + as shown by its inflexible severity to recidivist and

2. THE NEW GATE PRISON

3. BRIDEWELL WORKHOUSE (1553-1700)

4. WALNUT STREET JAIL

5. BOOT CAMPS/ SHOCK INCARCERATION

6. SINGSING PRISON (NY, US)

HOSPICE DE SAN MICHELLE (ROME)

BORSTAL INSTITUTION (ENGLAND)