FC CA FEB

• Correction


  Pillar of the criminal justice system
• Correction


  Branch of the Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders
• Institutional Corrections


  Correcting an offender by placing him to an institution where he can be treated well until he becomes fully recovered and accepted by the community
• Penology


  Branch of criminology which deals with the management and administration of inmates
• Safekeeping


  Temporary custody of a person or the detention of a person for his own protection or care, to secure from liability, harm, injury or damage
• Determinate sentence


  Penalty having its minimum and maximum duration
• Punishment


  Suffering inflicted by the state against an offending member of the society for the transgression of the law
• Reprimand


  Lowest authorized disciplinary punishment imposable to inmates
• Jail/Correction Officers


  • Deemed instrumental on the reformation of prisoners due to their daily contact with inmates
• Head count of inmates


  Conducted three times a day or as often as necessary to ensure that all inmates are duly accounted for
• BuCor


  Has jurisdiction to detain prisoners sentenced with Reclusion Temporal
• Detention prisoner


  Person convicted to serve 6 years imprisonment
• Death Convict


  Should have 5 shifting guards
• City jail


  Facility for the imprisonment of persons convicted of offenses with sentences from 6 months and 1 day to 3 years
• Prison


  Institution for the imprisonment of persons convicted of major offenses
• Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm


  Largest operating institution under the BuCor covering a total land area of more or less 28,000 hectares
• Old Bilibid Prison


  Formerly known as Carcel y Presidio, now used as the Manila City Jail
• Sub colonies of Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm

  • Central
  • Pasugui
  • Pusog
  • Yapang
  • Panabo
  • Kapalong
  • Sta. Lucia
  • Inagawan
  • Montible
  • Central
• Iwahig Penal Colony


  Highest income earner among the Philippine Correctional Institutions
• Sir Walter Crofton


  Introduced the progressive stage system, also referred to as the Irish System
• Jeremy Bentham


  First leader to prescribe imprisonment as correctional treatment for major offenders, also responsible for the abolition of death penalty and torture as a form of punishment
• Code of Hammurabi

  Ancient law that was practiced in the areas of Babylon, where the killer is answerable not to the family but to the king
• Alcatraz Prison


  Known as the "ROCK" built in San Francisco Bay
• Bridewell


  Most popular workhouse in London which was built for the employment and housing of English prisoners
• Securing sanctuary


  A criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refugee in a church for a period of 40 days at the end of which time he has compelled to leave the realm by a road or path assigned to him
• Walnut Street Jail


  Considered forerunner of modern penology because it had all the elements of a modern system
• Mamertine Prison


  Early Roman place of confinement which was built under the main sewer of Rome in 64 BC
• Auburn Prison System


  Also known as the Congregate System, the prisoners are confined in their own cells at night and allows congregate workshops during the day
• Panopticon


  A type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785, the concept of the design was derived from the word meaning of "pan" (all) and "opticon" (to allow an observer to observe)
• Hulks


  In the 18th Century, former warships used to house prisoners, originally intended as a temporary solution but was completely abandoned eighty years later
• Major goals of correction

  • Punishment
  • Confinement
  • Retribution
  • Treatment
• Sentenced prisoner


  Offender who is committed to the jail or prison in order to serve his sentence after final conviction of a competent court
• Grave offense


  Failure to assist in putting out fires inside the jail
• Grave offense


  Keeping on concealing keys or locks of places in the jail which are off-limits to inmates
• Special Time Allowance for Loyalty


  Deduction given to prisoners who have returned to their places of confinement within 48 hours after a calamity
• Good Conduct Time Allowance


  Deduction from the period of sentence granted to prisoners who have behaved well each month
• Director of Corrections


  May grant GCTA under RA 10592 to an inmate for good behavior with no record of disciplinary infraction or violation of prison rules and regulation
• Reception and Diagnostic Center


  Established to conduct a more effective rehabilitation of prisoners through a more scientific study and diagnoses of each and every prisoner committed to the Bureau of Corrections
• Mittimus


  Written order of the court or any other competent authority consigning an offender
• Carpeta


  Institutional record (national record) of an inmate which consists of his Mittimus/commitment order, the prosecutor's information and the decision of the trial court, including that of the appellate court, if any