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• Admission procedures in prison

  1. Presentation of documents

  2. Registration in book

  3. Admission process

  4. Body search and personal effects

  5. Confiscation of contraband
• Mittimus/Commitment Order


  Court document signed by judge and sealed by court clerk
• Documents required for admission

  • Mittimus/Commitment Order
  • Information and Court decision
  • Certificate of Detention
  • Certification case not on appeal
• A female inmate shall be received only at the CIW
• Registration Book


  Bound book where all commitments are recorded chronologically
• Information recorded in Registration Book

  • Name of inmate
  • Reason for commitment and authority
  • Sentence
  • Date and hour of admission
  • Date and hour of discharge or transfer and basis
• Admission process


  1. Photographed

  2. Fingerprinted

  3. Assigned permanent prison number

  4. Male inmate given regulation haircut, beard/mustache shaved
• Hairpieces


  Inmate may not wear wig or artificial hairpiece unless medically authorized
• Admission of inmate shall be made in area physically separated from general prison population
• Body search and personal effects

  1. Inmate thoroughly searched

  2. Allowed to retain only authorized articles

  3. List of articles taken entered in record and receipted

  4. Articles returned on discharge unless disposed of

  5. Medical officer decides disposition of any drugs/medicines
• Contraband


  Narcotics, prohibited drugs/substances, weapons, substances/chemicals that may cause injury, items inmate not allowed to possess
• Contraband items shall be confiscated
• BLUE-FLU


  The practice of uniformed personnel of taking sick leave EN MASSE to back-up their demands from improved working conditions, salary increments, and other items on their agenda
• Competent Authority


  • Supreme Court
  • Court of Appeals
  • Regional Trial Court
  • Metropolitan Trial Court
  • Municipal Trial Court
  • Municipal Circuit Trial Court
  • Sandigan Bayan
  • Military Courts
  • House of Representatives
  • Senate
  • Commission on Elections
  • Bureau of Immigration and Deportation
  • Board of Pardons and Parole
• CARPETA


  The institutional record of an inmate which consist of his mittimus/commitment order, the prosecutor's information and the decision of the trial court, including the appellate court, if any
• COMMITMENT


  The entrusting for confinement of an inmate to a jail by competent authority for investigation, trial and/or service of sentence
• CLASSIFICATION


  • The assigning or grouping of inmates according to their sentence, gender, age, nationality, health, criminal records, etc.
  • A method by which diagnosis, treatment, planning and execution of treatment programs are coordinated to an individual
  • The process of assigning inmates to types of custody or treatment programs appropriate to their needs
• COMMITMENT ORDER


  A written order of the court or any other competent authority consigning an offender to a jail or prison for confinement
• CONTRABAND


  Any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail rules
• Types of Contraband


  • Illegal Contraband - prohibited by law
  • Nuisance Contraband - prohibited only by jail rules
• COED INSTITUTION


  A co-correctional institution which hold both male and female offenders who interact and share the facility except for sleeping areas. They study, eat, dance, work and engage in leisure activities within one campus
• CONVICT BOGEY


  Society's exaggerated fear of the convict and ex-convict which is usually far out of proportion to the real danger they present
• DETERRENCE


  A crime-control strategy that uses punishment to prevent others from committing similar crimes
• DIVERSIFICATION


  An administrative device of correctional institutions of providing varied and flexible types of physical plants for more effective control of treatment programs of its diversified population
• DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION


  A crime strategy that focuses on keeping the offenders in the community rather than placing them in long-term institution
• DETERMINATE SENTENCE


  A fixed period of incarceration imposed on the offender by the court
• ESCAPE


  • An act of getting out unlawfully from confinement or custody by an inmate
  • Evasion of service of sentence (Art. 157, RPC)
  • Derived from the Greek word ESCAPIO and from the Latin word ESCAPIUM which means BY CHANCE OR ACCIDENT
• EXPUNGEMENT


  The process by which the record of crime conviction is destroyed or sealed after expiration of statutory required time
• FURLOUGH


  • Authorization that permits inmate to leave containment, for emergency family crises, usually accompanied by correctional officer. Crises include "death bed"
  • Not more than 30 km radius from the prison facility
  • More than 30 km but you can return in daylight time
  • Duration is for maximum of 3 hours only
  • Cannot join the funeral procession
  • Request at least 3 days before the date of visit
  • Approved by the trial court
  • Inmates confined in maximum security prison compounds are disqualified to avail the privilege of furlough
• HALF-WAY HOUSES


  • Non-confining residential facilities for adjudicated adults or juvenile or those subject to proceedings. They are alternative to containment for person not suited for probation that need period for re-adjustment to the community after imprisonment
  • HALFWAY OUT - prerelease facility used to orient the prisoner before release for adjustment purposes in coping in the outside
  • HALFWAY IN - consisting of prisoners who are half way in prison, including probation violators and parole violators
• INDETERMINATE SENTENCE


  Sets minimum and maximum period of incarceration
• INSTRUMENT OF RESTRAINT


  A device, contrivance, tool, or instrument used to hold back, keep in, check, or control an inmate; e.g. hand cuffs, leg irons
• 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
• MITTIMUS


  A warrant issued by a court bearing its seal and the signature of the judge, directing the jail or prison authorities to receive inmates for custody or service of sentence imposed therein
• OPERATION GREYHOUND


  A surprise and unannounced invasion of a cell inside a prison facility conducted by uniformed personnel of the prison establishment to search for any type of contraband
• PENITENTIARY


  A prison, correctional institution, or other place of confinement where convicted felons are sent to serve out the term of their sentence
• PENANCE


  • An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ecclesiastical court for some spiritual offense
  • An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing
• PRISON RECORD


  Information containing an inmate's personal circumstances, the offense he committed, the sentence imposed, the criminal case numbers in the trial 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 behavior and conduct while in prison
• PROSELYTIZING


  Coercing an inmate to change and practice other religion
• PRISONIZATION


  The process by which an inmate learns through socialization the rules and regulation of the penitentiary culture