The Philippine Correctional System

BUREAU OF CORRECTION
 The Bureau of Prison was renamed to Bureau of
Correction under Executive Order 292 passed during
the Aquino administration.
 The head of the Bureau is the Director of Prison
appointed by the President.
 It is one of the attached agencies of the Department of
Justice.
BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT
PENOLOGY

The BJMP exercises supervision and control over all cities

and municipal jails throughout the country.
It was created by virtue of RA 6975.
It operates under the DILG.
What is Prison
It is penitentiary, an institution for the imprisonment
(incarceration) of persons convicted of mayor/ serious
crimes.
 a place of confinement for those charged with or
convicted of offenses against the laws of the land.
Who is the Prisoner?
A prisoner is a person who is under the custody of
lawful authority. A person, who by reason of his
criminal sentence or by a decision issued by a court,
may be deprived of his liberty or freedom.
A prisoner is any person detained/ confined in jail or
prison for the commission of a criminal offense or
convicted and serving in a penal institution.
It was later named “inmate” but at present it is now
called Persons Deprived of Liberty or PDL.
General classification of prisoners

Detention Prisoners
Sentenced Prisoners
Prisoners who are on Safekeeping
Detention Prisoners
Those detained for investigation, preliminary hearing,
or awaiting trial.
A detainee is confined in lock up jail.
They are prisoners under the jurisdiction of courts.
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.
Prisoners who are safekeeping
Includes non-criminal offenders who are detained in
order to protect the community against their harmful
behavior.
Example: Mentally deranged individuals and insane
person.
Classification of Sentence Prisoners
Insular Prisoners
Provincial Prisoners
City Prisoners
Municipal Prisoners
Insular Prisoners/National
Those sentence to suffer a term of sentence of 3 years
and 1 day to life imprisonment.
Those sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment cited
above but appealed the judgment and unable to file a
bond for their temporary liberty.
Provincial Prisoners
Those persons sentenced to suffer a term from 6
months and 1 day to 3 years or a fine not more than
1,000 pesos, or both.
Detained therein waiting for preliminary investigation
of their cases cognizable by the Regional Trial Court.
City Prisoners
Those sentence to suffer a tem of imprisonment form
1 day to 3 years or a fine of not more than 1,000 pesos.
Those detained therein whose cases are filed with the
MTC.
Municipal Prisoners
Those confined in municipal jails to serve an
imprisonment from 1 day to 6 months.
Those detained therein whose trials of their cases are
pending with the MTC.
 Classification of Prisoners According to
Degree of Security

Maximum Security Prisoners

Medium Security Prisoners
Minimum Security Prisoners
MAXIMUM SECURITY
PRISONERS
It is the group of the prisoners whose escape could be
dangerous to the public or to the security of the state.
They are not allowed to go outside the institution.
They are confined in the MAXIMUM SECURITY
PRISON (NBP main building).
It include those sentence to serve imprisonment of 20
years or more.
MEDIUM SECURITY PRISONERS
Those who cannot be trusted in open condition.
They may be allowed working outside the fence of the
institution under guard escort.
They occupy the medium security prison (CAMP
SAMPAGUITA).
They wear blue color uniform.
It includes prisoners whose minimum sentence is less
than 20 years.
MINIMUM SECURITY PRISON
A group of prisoner who can be reasonably trusted to
serve sentence under open conditions.
This group includes prisoners who can be trusted to
report to their work without guard escort.
They occupy the minimum security prison (BUKANG
LIWAYWAY).
They wear brown uniform.
What is jail?
It is a place for locking-up of person who are
convicted of minor offenses or felonies.
They are to serve short sentences or waiting for trial or
investigation of the case.
 Types of Jail
Lock-up jail (police station)
Municipal Jail
City Jail
District Jail
Provincial Jail (provincial government)