Final Quiz

Question 1

It is the conditional release of a prisoner from correctional institution after serving the minimum period of his sentence.

Answer 1

Parole

Question 2

The first parole law was passed in ________________ in ______.

Answer 2

Massachusetts; 1837

Question 3

At about same time, ____________________ introduced a system, ____________, whereby a prisoner was given a “ticket of leave” (the equivalent of parole) after earning a certain required number of marks.

Answer 3

Alexander Maconochie; Mark System

Question 4

Legal Basis of Parole in the Philippines

Answer 4

Act No. 4103

Question 5

Parole in the Philippines is administered by the _______________________.

Answer 5

Board of Pardons and Parole

Question 6

It is created by virtue of Act No. 4103 (1933) known as the Indeterminate Sentence Law. It is an agency under the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Answer 6

Board of Pardon and Parole

Question 7

It is when the sentence provides for a minimum period and a maximum period

Answer 7

indeterminate sentence

Question 8

It has only one period in the sentence of the court.

Answer 8

determinate sentence

Question 9

___________ are entitled to an indeterminate sentence (People vs. Jaranilla, L-28547, Feb.22, 1974).

Answer 9

Recidivist

Question 10

A ________________________________ is entitled to the benefits of Indeterminate Sentence Law because his confinement is not considered as imprisonment (PP vs. Perez, CA 44 O.G 3884), likewise, if the accused escaped from the National Mental Hospital, since his confinement as patient is not imprisonment (PP vs. Co. CA G.R No. 163, June 13, 1938).

Answer 10

minor who escaped from confinement in the reformatory

Question 11

Any infraction by a client of the terms and condition appearing in release document or any serious deviation or non-observance of the obligations set in the parole supervision program shall immediately reported by his _____________________ to the Board.

Answer 11

Parole and Probation Officer

Question 12

Upon receipt of an information report, the Board shall immediately order the arrest of the client of Parole and shall made to serve the _____________________ of the maximum sentence for which he was originally committed to prison.

Answer 12

remaining unexpired portion

Question 13

It refers to the Commutation of Sentence, Absolute Pardon, and Conditional Pardon, with or without the parole conditions, as may be granted by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardon and Parole.

Answer 13

Executive Clemency

Question 14

A formal petition for Executive Clemency must address to __________________________ through the Chairman of Board of Pardon and Parole.

Answer 14

“The President of the Philippines”

Question 15

It refers to the prisoner who applies for the grant of executive clemency or parole.

Answer 15

Petitioner

Question 16

It is an executive clemency granted by the President/Chief Executive. It may also be defined as an act of grace proceeding from the power entrusted with the President which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed, from punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.

Answer 16

Pardon

Question 17

It refers to the total extinction of criminal liability of the individual to whom, it is granted without any condition whatsoever and restores to the individual to his civil rights and the penalty imposed for the particular offense of which he was convicted.

Answer 17

Absolute Pardon

Question 18

It refers to the exemption of an individual, within certain limits or conditions, from the punishment, which the law inflicts for the offense he has committed resulting in the partial extinction of his criminal liability.

Answer 18

Conditional Pardon

Question 19

It is an act of sovereign power granting oblivion or general pardon for a past offense usually granted in favor of certain classes of persons who have committed crimes of a political character, such as treason, sedition, rebellion.

Answer 19

Amnesty

Question 20

It abolishes and puts into “oblivion” the offense of which one is charged, so that the person released by amnesty is considered as if he did not commit any offense.

Answer 20

Amnesty

Question 21

It is a fact need not be proved.

Answer 21

Judicial notice

Question 22

It is the power of the President to prevent the collection of fines or the confiscation of forfeited property.

Answer 22

Remission of fines or forfeitures

Question 23

Both reprieve and suspension of sentence refer to temporary stay or postponement of sentence, but ____________________ is done for an indefinite time, while __________ is done to a fixed or definite date.

Answer 23

suspension of sentence; reprieve

Question 24

It is an act of the President reducing the penalty of a convict.

Answer 24

Commutation

Question 25

It is the reduction of period of imprisonment if the convict shows good behavior.

Answer 25

Good conduct time allowance

Question 26

Good Conduct Time Allowance does not apply to ____________.

Answer 26

detention prisoners

Question 27

A deduction of ______ of the period of his sentence shall be granted to any prisoner who, having evaded his preventive imprisonment or the service of his sentence under the circumstances mentioned in Article 158 of RPC, gives himself up to the authorities within 48 hours following the issuance of a proclamation announcing the passing away of the calamity or catastrophe referred to in said article.

Answer 27

1/5

Question 28

A deduction of _______ of the period of his sentence shall be granted in case said prisoner chose to stay in the place of his confinement notwithstanding the existence of a calamity or catastrophe enumerated in Article 158 of the Revised Penal Code.

Answer 28

two-fifths

Question 29

Act No. 2489, otherwise known as the industrial good time law, provides that when a prisoner has been classified as ______________________, he is given an additional 5 days’ time allowance for every month of service.

Answer 29

trustee or penal colonist

Question 30

A prisoner serving life sentence automatically reduced to _________ of imprisonment upon attaining the classification of trustee or penal colonist.

Answer 30

30 years

Question 31

This is committed by a convict who shall evade service of his sentence by escaping during the term of his imprisonment by reason of final judgment (Art. 157 of the Revised Penal Code).

Answer 31

Evasion of Service of Sentence

Question 32

This is committed by any person who shall commit a felony after having been convicted by final judgment, before beginning to serve such sentence, or while serving the same (Art. 159 of the Revised Penal Code).

Answer 32

Commission of Another Crime During Service of Penalty Imposed for Another Previous Offense

Question 33

There is ____________ when an accused at the time of his trial for an offence shall have been previously convicted by final judgment of a crime embraced in the same title of the Revised Penal Code.

Answer 33

recidivism

Question 34

There is ______________ when a person who, before serving sentence or while serving sentence, commits another felony.

Answer 34

quasi-recidivism

Question 35

There is _________________ when within ten (10) years from the date of last conviction or last release of a person for any of the crimes of serious physical injury, less serious physical injury, theft, robbery, estafa, or falsification (FRETSeL), he is found guilty the third time or oftener.

Answer 35

habitual delinquency

Question 36

There is ____________ when the offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches an equal or greater penalty, or when he has been previously punished for two (2) or more crimes previously to which the law attaches a lighter penalty.

Answer 36

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