Types of Jail

• District Jail
• City Jail
• Municipal Jail
DISTRICT JAIL
• Within large cities or a group of clustered municipalities, a District Jail
headed by a District Warden may be established.
• Is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates coming from a city
or clustered municipalities who are waiting or undergoing trial or
serving sentence of one (1) day to three (3) years.
CITY JAIL
• A facility or a place of confinement for those inmates who are
sentenced with a penalty from (1) one day to three (3) year
imprisonment.
• Abanao St., Baguio City

MUNICIPAL JAIL
• A facility or a place of confinement for those who are sentenced
with a penalty for a term not exceeding six (6) month
imprisonment.
PROVINCIAL JAIL
• A facility or a place of confinement for inmates who are sentenced
with imprisonment from six (6) months and (1) one to three (3) year
imprisonment.

Provincial Jail Administrator

• Refers to the official duly designated to head the BJMP Provincial Jail
Administrator’s Office and to oversee the implementation of jail
services of all district, city and municipal jails within its territorial
jurisdiction.
MANDATE
• The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology was created on January
2, 1991 pursuant to Republic Act 6975, replacing its forerunner, the
Jail Management and Penology Service of the defunct Philippine
ConstabularyIntegrated National Police. The BJMP exercises
administrative and operational jurisdiction over all district, city and
municipal jails. It is a line bureau of the Department of the Interior
and Local Government (DILG).
VISION
• The BJMP envisions itself as a dynamic institution highly regarded for
its sustained humane safekeeping and development of inmates.

MISSION
• The Bureau aims to enhance public safety by providing humane
safekeeping and development of inmates in all district, city and municipal
jails.
POWERS
• The BJMP exercises supervision and control over all district, city and
municipal jails. As such, it shall ensure the establishment of secure,
clean, adequately equipped sanitary facilities; and ensure the
provision of quality services for the custody, safekeeping,
rehabilitation and development of district, city and municipal
inmates, any fugitive from justice, or person detained awaiting or
undergoing investigation or trial and/or transfer to the National
Penitentiary, and/or violent mentally ill person who endangers
him/herself or the safety of others as certified by the proper medical
or health officer, pending transfer to a mental institution.
FUNCTIONS
• To enhance and upgrade organizational capability on a regular basis;
thus, making all BJMP personnel updated on all advancements in law
enforcement eventually resulting in greater crime solution efficiency
and decreased inmate population;
• To implement strong security measures for the control of inmates;
• To provide for the basic needs of inmates;
• To conduct activities for the rehabilitation and development of
inmates; and e. to improve jail facilities and conditions.