DESIGN 7

PLATE NO. 1
“JAILS”

TTH 8:00 - 2:30

SUBMITTED BY:

KLINT ABRASADO
BS ARCH 4C

SUBMITED TO:

AR. ALOVERA
INSTRUCTOR
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

a) Act – refers to R.A. 10575, entitled “An Act Strengthening the Bureau of Corrections
(BuCor) and providing Funds Therefor,” otherwise known as the Bureau of Corrections Act of
2013.
b) Active Service – refers to the services rendered as a civilian official or employee in the
Philippine government including services rendered in the uniformed service prior to the date
of separation or retirement.
c) Admin – refers to Administrative.
d) Administrative Requirement – refers to the sufficient provision of personnel, facilities,
equipment and supplies.
e) Admission – refers to the manner of receiving national inmates, a detainee or convicted
person in a prison facility committed by courts or other competent authority to serve
sentence for a certain period or for temporary confinement.
f) Base Pay – refers to a fixed amount of compensation for regular work rendered, designated
in the Salary Schedule for Uniformed Personnel for all ranks computed on monthly or annual
basis, excluding fringe benefits and other allowances.
g) BuCor – refers to the Bureau of Corrections.
h) Bureau of Corrections – refers to the central office and the prison and penal farms which
are known as colonies. The central office headed by the Director General has control and
supervision over the prison and penal farms.
i) Circumferential – refers to an adjective for a set of activities, programs and areas of
concern which are interdependently concentrated toward accomplishing a core objective or
function.
j) Civil Identity – refers to societal functional identity recognized and/or granted by
government agencies and authorities (i.e. Judge, Attorney, Accountant).
k) Competent Authority – refers to the President of the Republic Philippines, Supreme
Court, Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan, Regional Trial Court, Metropolitan Trial Court,
Municipal Trial Court, Municipal Circuit Trial Court, Shari’a Court, and Military Courts,
House of Representatives, Senate, COMELEC, Bureau of Immigration, Board of Pardons and
Parole and other courts of jurisdiction provided for by law
l) Criminal Networks – refers to illegal arrangements and linkages forged by shady
characters aimed to conduct unlawful activities.
m) Deputy Director – refers to two (2) star rank general officer of BuCor uniformed
personnel.
n) Deputy Director General – refers to the second officer in command of the BuCor with the
rank of Assistant Secretary as civilian employee in the uniformed service who is authorized
to wear the two (2) star rank insignia as symbol of authority and command responsibility.
o) Deterrence – When retribution is imposed upon a person who has committed a crime, the
discomfort inflicted will dissuade the offender (and others) from repeating the crime. When
the theory refers to the specific offender who committed the crime, it is known as special
deterrence. General deterrence describes the effect that punishment has when it serves as a
public example or threat that deters people other than the
initial offender from committing similar crimes.
p) Director General – refers to the highest officer in BuCor with the rank of Undersecretary
as a civilian employee in the uniformed service who is authorized to wear the three (3) star
rank insignia as symbol of authority and command responsibility.
q) DOJ – refers to the Department of Justice.
r) Inmate – refers to person confined in jails/prisons to serve his/her sentence or for
safekeeping who is officially called Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL).
s) IRR – refers to the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA 10575.
t) National Inmate – refers to an inmate sentenced by a court to serve a term of
imprisonment for more than three years or to a fine of more than one thousand pesos; or
regardless of the length of sentence imposed by the court, to one sentenced for violation of
customs law or other laws within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Customs or enforceable by
it; or for violation of immigration and election laws; or to one sentenced to serve two or more
prison sentences in the aggregate exceeding the period of three years, whether or not he has
appealed. It shall also include a person
committed to the Bureau of Corrections by a court or competent authority for temporary
confinement for similar purpose.
u) Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) – refers to a detainee, inmate, or prisoner, or other
person under confinement or custody in any other manner. However, in order to prevent
labeling, branding or shaming by the use of these or other derogatory words, the term
“prisoner” has been replaced by this new and neutral phrase “person deprived of liberty”
under Article 10, of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), who “shall
be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent
dignity of the human person.”
v) Personal Identity – refers to social recognition accorded as member of the family (i.e.
parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, grandfather) and the community (i.e. neighbor).
w) Practitioner Research - refers to research and/or workplace research such as evaluation
performed by individuals who also work in a professional field as opposed to being full-time
academic researchers.
x) Prison – refers to a government establishment where national inmates/prisoners serve
their sentence. Philippine prisons are also known as penal colonies or Prison and Penal
Farms. There are a total of seven (7) penal colonies presently under the control and
supervision of the Bureau of Corrections.
y) Reformation – refers to the rehabilitation component of the BuCor’s present corrections
system, shall refer to the acts which ensure the public (including families of inmates and
their victims) that released national inmates are no longer harmful to the community by
becoming reformed individuals prepared to live a normal and productive life upon
reintegration to the mainstream society.
z) Release – refers to the procedures where an inmate is discharged from prison by
expiration of sentence; granted parole, grant of any other forms of executive clemency, and
order of the court or competent authority.
aa) Reservation – refers to a penal/prison land reservation area comparable to a military
reservation area.
bb) Restoration – refers to a victim-oriented approach to crime that emphasizes restitution
(compensation) for victims. This intervention advocates restoring the victim and creating
constructive roles for victims in the criminal justice process, rather than focus on the
punishment of criminals.
cc) Restraint – refers to confinement to incapacitate or deny a criminal the ability or
opportunity to commit further crimes that harm society.
dd) Retribution – refers to making a person accountable for offense committed, by serving
sentence, community service, fines, and other means.
ee) Safekeeping – refers to the custodial mandate of the BuCor’s present corrections system,
and shall refer to the act that ensures the public (including families of inmates and their
victims) that national inmates are provided with their basic needs. The safekeeping of
inmates shall moreover comprise decent provision for their basic needs, which include
habitable quarters, food, water, clothing, and medical care, in compliance with the
established UNSMRTP, and consistent with restoring the dignity
of every inmate and guaranteeing full respect for human rights. The complementary
component of Safekeeping in custodial function is Security which ensures that inmates are
completely incapacitated from further committing criminal acts, and have been totally cut off
from their criminal networks (or contacts in the free society) while serving sentence inside
the premises of the national penitentiary. Security also includes protection against illegal
organized armed groups which have the capacity of launching an attack on any prison camp
of the national penitentiary to rescue their convicted comrade or to forcibly amass firearms
issued to corrections officers.
ff) Secretary – refers to the Secretary of Justice.
gg) Security Camp – refers to a large enclosed area with dormitories, sports facilities,
classrooms, medical facilities, religious facilities, and other necessary facilities where
national inmates/prisoners are confined to serve their sentence. There are at least three (3)
types of security camps: Maximum Security Camp, Medium Security Camp, and Minimum
Security Camp. (Jailed inmates are confined in “prison cells” called
“jails” - not in security camps, while undergoing court trials or awaiting court sentence.)
hh) Seniority and Lineal List (SLL) – refers to a document containing the names of all
officers in the active corrections service, arranged by grade and in accordance with their
relative seniority for each regular component, and by service to which they are appointed.
ii) Similar Professional Skills – refers to prison administration, resource management and
engineering skills.
jj) Victims – refers to the casualties of the offense committed but is not limited to those who
filed the charges against the offender but also include the family of the offender himself.

A. FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

A.1 site selection

Jail Site Evaluation and Selection

Step 1: Develop Site Evaluation Criteria

The “Sample Site Evaluation

Form” suggests 15 site evaluation criteria and discusses
their content. Site selection committees may want to hold meetings in which the public can
comment on these criteria and suggest others. Committee members can talk
about these considerations— security, public protection, jail operation, access, traffic,
etc.—in a way that informs the public and the media about the safeguards to
be incorporated in the jail design and about the complexities and costs of jail operations,
especially transportation between the court and remote sites.

Step 2: Identify Potential Sites

The site selection committee should issue a public call for all interested parties to come
forward with their proposed sites. Even if committee members believe they have a site
that works, it is prudent to make a list of other potential sites and conduct preliminary
evaluations of them.

Determining Whether a Site Is Big Enough

A key criterion in searching for a new jail site is that the property has to accommodate more
than just the footprint of the new jail building.

Building footprint (including expansion)

Use the architectural master space program to
determine the building footprint, and add space for possible future expansion.
Building-plan irregularities
The final building plan will not be a simple rectangle. To meet certain requirements
(circulation, daylight, etc.) and accommodate natural features of the property, the final plan
will have irregularities in shape. Add 25 percent to the building’s program gross square
footage areas for a rough approximation of the total footprint.

Recreation yards.
Modern jail design places most recreation
yards on the ground adjacent to the general population housing units. Be sure to include
these footprints in the calculations.

Perimeter and access roads.

If the jail will have a perimeter fence line, include the area required
for the double fence zone and the perimeter patrol road. Also add roads providing access to
the site from public roads.

Parking.
Include space for staff and visitor parking. The jail will need enough parking to
accommodate two full staff shifts because of overlap during shift changes, as well as
enough spaces for overlap during visiting hours. Also provide adequate space for future
expansion. The parking needs of a jail facility can be considerable and, at approximately
350 to 400 square feet per car, can represent a significant on site requirement. allocations
should be developed as follows. Staff One car per employee on the largest two shifts
combined to allow adequate parking at shift change.

For example:

Family personel visitors - Two cars for the maximum number of visitors allowed at one time to
allow enough parking for both the persons visiting and the persons coming to visit during the
next time
period. This provision assumes some scheduling of visits so that
visitors arrive sequentially rather than all at once. Without scheduling,
parking demands will be greater. For example:
Service yards.
Include areas for incoming deliveries and for waste disposal and recycling.

Buffer zones.
The amount of “buffer” zone around the facility is discretionary.Planners may want to provide
a visual barrier of trees and greenery or some other buffer between the perimeter fence
and the property line.

Fire access lanes.

Be sure to check with the fire department that has jurisdiction over the jail site. Find out the
requirements for access lanes for firefighting equipment.

Natural features.
It is difficult and expensive to build on
steep slopes and wetlands. Discount these areas from calculations of available land when
analyzing a piece of property.

Step 3: Conduct a Preliminary Evaluation

In this step, a site selection team (a subcommittee of the larger site selection committee)
visits each site and conducts a “walkthrough,” gathering data on conditions. The team also
gathers data from sources such as tax maps and property records. It may be necessary to
generate additional information: a topographical survey, a boundary survey and legal
description, borings to determine subsurface conditions, groundwater tests, etc.

Step 4: Select the Recommended Site

Although the evaluation process is not scientific, it is an orderly way to display information,
it makes the information easy to understand, and it allows the site selection committee to
compare the assets and liabilities of each property. It also provides a format that the public
and the media can easily comprehend.

Step 5: Conduct a Detailed Site Analysis

Once a site is selected, the next step is a detailed analysis to determine whether the site will
accommodate the projected jail and its requirements. In this step, an architect and a civil
engineer prepare alternative building and road layouts that will enable planners to decide
whether the property can be developed within the facility’s operational and budget
requirements. The result of this process is a detailed master plan for the project.

SECTION 105. Site Requirements

The land or site upon which will be constructed any building or structure, or any ancillary or
auxiliary facility thereto, shall be sanitary, hygienic or safe. In case of sites or buildings
intended for use as human habitation or abode, the same shall be at a safe distance, as
determined by competent authorities, from streams or bodies of water and/or sources of air
considered to be polluted; from a volcano or volcanic site and/or any other building
considered to be a potential source of fire or explosion.

A.2 Spaces

Master Control
The basic function of master control (also referred to as “central control”) is to serve
as the monitoring and control center for all communications, life safety and security systems,
and all general building movement patterns, including entries and exits through the main
security envelope of the jail Master control may also function as a point from which some
inmate housing units or other inmate or public areas are monitored In smaller jails, it might
also be combined with the law enforcement dispatch function and handle public reception
during some or all shifts In some very small jails, master control may serve as the only secure,
fixed staff post within the facility and is truly the “nerve center”of the operation.