Part 5 Flashcards
• New Bilibid Prisons (Main Building)
• Created by virtue of Common Wealth act no. 67.
• November 15, 1940- all inmates of the Old Bilibid Prison were
transferred to the new site
• Officially named on January 22, 1941
• Camp Sampaguita/ medium security camp
• Constructed 2.5 kilometer away from the main building.
• Camp Bukang Liwayway/Minimum Security camp
• Formerly used as Military Stockage during the Martial law
NATIONAL BILIBID PRISONS (MUNTINLUPA RIZAL)
When the all inmates of the Old Bilibid Prison were
transferred to the new site
November 15, 1940
/ medium security camp
Camp Sampaguita
/Minimum Security camp
Camp Bukang Liwayway
• A separate facility of the Bureau of Corrections created through the
issuance of Administrative Order no. 8, series of 1953 of the
Department of Justice.
RECEPTION AND DIAGNOSTIC CENTER
• Created by virtue of Republic Act No. 3579 in November 27, 1929
• authorized the transfer of all women inmates to a building in
Welfareville at Mandaluyong, Rizal
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN
Republic Act No. 3579
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN
When was CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN created?? Y.D
November 27, 1929
Location of CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN
Mandaluyong, Rizal
• Established on September 26, 1954 by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 72
• has a total land area of approximately 16,190 hectares
• Sablayan prison is a facility where prisoners from NBP are brought for decongestion
purposes. It follows the same colony standards as other penal farms.
Sablayan Colony and Farm
is a facility where prisoners from NBP are brought for decongestion
purposes. It follows the same colony standards as other penal farms.
Sablayan prison
Sablayan prison has a total land area of approximately ?
16,190 hectares
When was sablayan prison Established?
on September 26, 1954
Location of sablayan prison?
(San Jose Occidental Mindoro)
• It was purposely for incorrigible prisoners.
• Houses Minimum Security Prisoners
• Considered as the “Prison without Walls” in the world
• Tagumpay Settlement
Iwahig Penal Colony and Farm
4 Sub-Colonies of iwahig prison
- Central sub-colony with an area of 14,700 hectares;
- Sta. Lucia with 9,685 hectares;
- Montible with 8,000 hectares; and
- Inagawan with 13,000 hectares
When iwahig prison Established?
November 16, 1904
Iwahig prison Envisioned by?
Gov. Luke E. Wright
Who ordered for the establishment of iwahig prison?
Gov. Forbes
• first penal settlement founded and organized under Filipino administration.
• Tanglaw Settlement (Prisoners Homestead)
• Main Product is Abaca
Davao Penal Colony and Farm (Central Davao)
2 Sub-Colonies of Davao penal colony
- Panabo
- Kapalong
When was the Davao penal colony formally established ?
January 21, 1932
• (whose patron
saint the prison was named after
• the facility was originally established for persons convicted of political crimes.
• prisoners were required to do agricultural work.
• Main Product is coconuts. Rice, corn, papaya and other crops were also cultivated.
San Ramon Penal Colony and Farm
Where was san Ramon prison established ?
in southern Zamboanga
When was san Ramon prison Established?
Y.D
August 21,1870
through a royal decree
promulgated in 1869.
San Ramon prison
Who Established the san Ramon prison?
Governor General Ramon Blanco
Considered the oldest penal facility in the country
San Ramon penal colony
• Youngest penal colony to be established
• later became an agricultural estate for Cavendish bananas
Leyte Regional Prison (Abuyog, Southern Leyte)
• a year after the declaration of martial law in 1972
by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 28.
Leyte Regional Prison (
Location of Leyte Regional Prison ?
Abuyog, Southern Leyte)
When was Leyte Regional Prison Established
January 16, 1973
Youngest penal colony to be established
• later became an agricultural estate for Cavendish bananas
Leyte Regional Prison (Abuyog, Southern Leyte)
• A penitentiary, an institution for the imprisonment (incarceration) of persons
convicted of major/ serious crimes.
PRISON
• A building, usually with cells, or other places established for the purpose of taking
safe custody or confinement of criminals.
Prison
• A place of confinement for those charged with or convicted off offenses against the
laws of the land.
Prison
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 the court, may be deprived of his liberty
or freedom.
PRISONER
A person committed to jail or prison by a competent authority for any of the
following reasons:
a. To serve a sentence after conviction
b. Trial
c. Investigation
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF PRISONERS
Detention Prisoners
Sentenced Prisoners
Prisoners who are on Safekeeping
- Includes non-criminal offenders who are detained in order to protect the community
against their harmful behavior. - Example: Mentally derange individuals, insane person
Prisoners who are on Safekeeping
- Offenders who are committed to 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.
Sentenced Prisoners
- Those detained for investigation, preliminary hearing, or awaiting trial.
- A detainee in a lock-up jail.
- They are prisoners under the Jurisdiction of Courts
Detention Prisoners
CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCED PRISONERS
Insular or National Prisoners
Provincial Prisoners
City Prisoners
Municipal Prisoners
Those sentenced to suffer a term of sentence of 3 yrs. 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.
➢
Those convicted for the violation of the omnibus election code.
Insular or National Prisoners
➢
Those persons sentenced to suffer term of imprisonment from 6 months and 1
day to 3 years or a fine not more than 1,000 pesos or both; or
➢
Detained therein waiting for preliminary investigation of their cases cognizable
by the Regional Trial Court (RTC).
Provincial Prisoners
➢ Those sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment from 1 day to 3 years or a fine not
more than 1,000 pesos or both.
➢ Those detained therein whose cases are filed with the Municipal Trial Court (MTC)
➢ Those detained therein whose cases are cognizable by the RTC and under
Preliminary Investigation
City 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 municipal
trial court
Municipal Prisoners
CLASSIFICATION OF PRISONERS ACCORDING TO DEGREE OF SECURITY
Super Maximum Security Prisoners
Maximum Security Prisoners
Medium Security Prisoners
Minimum Security Prisoners
• A special group of prisoners composed of incorrigible, intractable, and highly
dangerous persons who are the source of constant disturbances even in a maximum
security prison.
Super Maximum Security Prisoners
• They wear ORANGE color of uniform.
Super Maximum Security Prisoners
• The group of prisoners whose escape could be dangerous to the public or to the
security of the state.
Maximum Security Prisoners
• they wear ORANGE color of uniform.
• they wear ORANGE color of uniform.
• Prisoners includes those sentenced to serve sentence 20 years or more, or those
whose sentenced are under the review of the Supreme Court, and offenders who are
criminally insane having severe personality or emotional disorders that make them
dangerous to fellow offenders or staff members.
Maximum Security Prisoners
• Those who can not be trusted in open condition and pose lesser danger than
maximum security prisoners in case they escape.
Medium Security Prisoners
• It consists of group of prisoners who may be allowed to work outside the fence or
walls of the institution under guards or with escorts.
Medium Security Prisoners
(Camp Sampaguita) and they wear BLUE
color of uniforms. Generally, they are employed as agricultural workers.
•
Medium Security Prisoners
It includes prisoners whose minimum sentence is less than 20 years and life
sentence prisoners who served at least 10 years inside a maximum security prison.
Medium Security Prisoners
(Dubbed as the Walk Away Prisoners)
• A group of prisoners who can reasonably trusted to serve sentence under “open
Conditions”
•
• They occupy the minimum security prison (Camp Bukang Liwayway) and
Minimum Security Prisoners
wear
BROWN color uniforms.
Minimum Security Prisoners
This group includes prisoners who can be trusted to report to their work
assignments with out the presence of guards.
Minimum Security Prisoners
A place for locking-up of persons who are convicted of minor offenses or felonies
who are to serve a short sentence imposed upon by a competent court, or for
confinement of persons who are awaiting trial or investigation of their cases.
JAILS
TYPES OF JAILS
LOCK-UP JAILS-
ORDINARY JAILS
WORKHOUSES, JAIL FARMS OR CAMP
a facility that houses minimum custody
offenders who are serving short sentences or those who are undergoing
constructive work programs. It provides full employment of prisoners, remedial
services and constructive leisure time activities.
WORKHOUSES, JAIL FARMS OR CAMP-
- the type of jail commonly used to detain a convicted criminal
offender to serve sentence less than three years
ORDINARY JAILS
- a security facility, common to police stations, used for
temporary confinement of an individual held for investigation
LOCK-UP JAILS
• in the Philippines are not under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of
Corrections. They are manage and controlled by the Provincial Government
PROVINCIAL JAILS
- unannounced inspection and religious conduct of searches of inmates’ quarters to flush
out contraband and other deadly weapons and to ensure the safety and security of
inmates, visitors and personnel.
Oplan Greyhound
-the release of inmates/prisoners through the implementation of applicable laws.
Oplan Decongestion
Applicable law in oplan decongestion
Release on Recognizance (RA 6036)
Probation/Parole (PD 968)
Child Welfare Code (PD 603)
Preventive Imprisonment (BP 85)
GCTA (Art. 99, RPC)
Escort Procedure
✓ For court appearance: 2:1
Two(2) guards by one inmate(1)
✓ Distance of guards from inmates:
A guard shall keep a distance of not less than ten (10) paces from his charge.
Transportation & Food Allowance
• Release:
A.NCR: Fifty pesos(P50.00)-Transportation
Two Hundred(P200.00)-Food
B. Provinces: Free Ticket-Transportation
Two Hundred(P200.00)-Food
Transportation and food allowance in NCR:
Fifty pesos(P50.00)-Transportation
Two Hundred(P200.00)-Food
Transportation and food allowance in Provinces
Free Ticket-Transportation
(P200.00)-Food
shall be under the signature of the judge and shall
bear the seal of the court attested by the clerk of court thereof.
The mittimus/commitment order
• refers to the institutional record of an inmate which consists of his
mittimus/commitment order, the prosecutor’s information and the decision of the
trial court, including that the appellate court, if any
Carpeta
• refers to information concerning an inmate’s personal circumstances, the offense he
committed, the sentence imposed, the criminal case numbers in the trial and
appellate courts, the date he commenced service of his sentence, the date he was
received for confinement, the place of confinement, the date of expiration of his
sentence, the number of previous convictions, if any, and his behaviour or conduct
while in prison.
Prison record
in every prison which shall receive; study and
classify inmates and detainees committed to the Bureau.
Reception and Diagnostic Center
• After registration the inmate shall be photograph front and side view, fingerprint
and assigned a permanent prison number, the male inmate shall then be given a
regulation haircut and his beard mustache if any, shall be shaven off.
Admission Process
Quarantine
Upon admission in the Reception and Diagnostic Center, an inmate shall be
placed in quarantine for at least five (5) days
Quarantine
After the quarantine period, the inmate shall remain in the Reception and
Diagnostic Center for a period not exceeding fifty-five (55) days where he shall undergo
psychiatric, psychological, sociological, vocational, educational and religious and other
examinations
Assignment of inmate
.
Color of Uniform as to security classification
• Maximum security – tangerine
• Medium security – blue
• Minimum security – brown
• Detainee – gray,
Classification of inmates as to entitlement to privileges
Detainee;
2. Third Class inmate
3.Second Class inmate
4.First Class inmate
5.Colonist
Husband and wife inmates may be allowed to serve their sentence together in a
prison and penal farm as soon as both are classified as colonist.
inmates who are spouses
the privilege may be enjoyed only if the deceased relative is in a
place within a radius of thirty (30) kilometers by road from the prison
Distance of travel
. – The inmate may be allowed more or less three (3) hours
to view the deceased relative in the place where the remains lay in the state but shall
not be allowed to pass any other place in transit, or to join the funeral cortege.
Duration of the privilege
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.
Prison labor of finally convicted inmate. –
– 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.
Prison labor of detainee
• A female inmates shall only be assigned to work on jobs suitable to her age and
physical condition. She shall be supervised only by women officers.
Female inmate
. – an inmate over sixty (60) years of age may be excused from mandatory
labor.
Old inmate
• – Only medium and minimum security inmates may
assigned to work in agricultural field projects within a prison reservation
Place of work assignment
shall not be allowed to work outside the maximum security
compound.
Maximum security inmates
• shall be conducted in prison to promote good work habits and selfesteem among inmates and not as a means to exploit cheap prison labor or as a
punishment for deviant behavior.
Work programs
• . – 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,
Inmate compensation
whole or part of the compensation credits
earned by an inmate may be forfeited and applied to the payment of supplies and
equipment lost or damaged resulting from the inmate’s misconduct or willful
negligence.
Compensation Credit
