Institutional Correction: Important Terminologies: Carpeta
Institutional Correction: Important Terminologies: Carpeta
IMPORTANT TERMINOLOGIES:
CARPETA – refers to 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.
Prison Records – Personal circumstances of an inmate
CORRECTIONS – is that branch of administration of criminal justice charged with the
responsibility for the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of the convicted offender.
- Also a generic term that includes all government facilities, programs,
procedures, personnel and techniques concern with the investigation, intake,
custody, confinement, supervision or treatment of alleged offender.
Penology – derived from the Latin word “POENA” means “pain of suffering” is a branch
of criminology that deals with the custody, rehabilitation and reformation of inmates.
COMMITMENT – a written order of the court or any other competent authority,
consigning an offender, to jail or prison for confinement.
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.
Rehabilitation – A program of activity directed to restore an inmate’s self -respect
thereby making him a law-abiding citizen after serving his sentence (restoring back once
capacity)
CONTRABAND – Any article, item or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail
rules.
DETAINEE – person who is confined in prison pending preliminary investigation, trial
or appeal; or upon legal process issued by competent authority. A person accused before
a court or competent authority who is temporarily confined in jail while undergoing
investigation, awaiting final judgement.
Prisoner – is a person of an accused who is convicted of the final judgement and
classified as municipal, city, provincial and national prisoner.
Safekeeping – Temporary confinement of a person for his own safety, security and
protection.
Rehabilitation Model – underscores the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by
biological or psychological model.
Just desert model – correctional model wherein criminals are punished because they
have infringed the right of others and the security of the sanction should for the
seriousness of the crime.
Educational program – regarded as the most important program that aid in the
rehabilitation of prisoners.
Operation Greyhound – Utilized as method in searching the prisoners for possession of
contraband inside prison institution.
Personal – nobody can assume the suffering for a crime committed by others.
Idleness – Considered as persistent problem in almost all prison facility which contribute
to failure of the reforming programs.
Escape – unreasonable or unlawful manner of getting out from prison.
Death – Supreme court automatically review the cases of criminals convicted.
Biological model – crime causation focus in criminal disorder, chromosomes,
irregularity, and abnormal brain activity.
Disorganized Criminal – are inmates called when they are all low or afflicted with
psychological or physical disability and who have difficulty functioning with the prison
society.
Incapacitation – under the correctional goal, the criminal is rendered physically unable
to commit crime in the future.
Inquisition – the wright to be tried in an ecclesiastical court during the middle ages.
ACA – donated the halfway house inside the compound of BUCOR.
Restitution - provide financial remuneration for the losses incurred by the victim.
Hustling – selling illegal commodities.
Discipline – Is the continuing state of good character.
CAPIC – remarkability of prison product
Frisking – refers to body search
Hardwood shop – blamed to be the source of all harmful materials being used in rioting
inmates.
Securing Sanctuary - criminal can seek refuge in a church in order to avoid punishment
in a period of 90 days.
Quarantine Cell – special unit or section of the RDC where the prisoner was given
thorough physical examination including blood test, x-ray, vaccination and immunity for
5 days period.
Diversification – principle of separating homogenous type of prisoner that requires
special treatment and or degree of custody factor.
Lock up – PNP controlled detention cell
Death row phenomenon – opponents of capital punishment claim that prisoners
isolation and uncertainly over their fate constitute a form of mental cruelty, specially long
term death row inmates are liable to become mentally ill.
Detainee – Person of an accused under investigation, awaiting trial or waiting for final
disposition of the case.
DEGREE OF CUSTODY – most common factor for diversification.
DIVERSIFICATION – Administrative device of correctional institutions of providing
varied and flexible types of physical plants for more effective control of the treatment
programs of its diversified population.
DIVERSION – Establishment of alternatives to formal justice system such as deferred
prosecution resolution of citizen’s dispute, and treatment alternatives to street crimes.
DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION – A crime strategy that focuses on keeping the
offenders in the community rather than placing them in long-term institution.
PENANCE – An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ecclesiastical court for some
spiritual offense.
PENAL SERVITUDE – A punishment, which consist in keeping an offender in
confinement and compelling him to labor.
PENALTY – Is the suffering that is inflicted by the state for the transgression of the law.
PENITENTIARY – A prison, correctional institution, or other place of confinement
where convicted felons are sent to serve out the term of their sentence.
SAFEKEEPING – The temporary custody of a person for his own protection, safety, or
care; and/or his security from harm, injury or danger for the liability he has committed.
STATUS OFFENSE – Behavior or conduct that is an offense when committed by
juvenile.
BLUE-FLU – The practice of uniformed personnel of taking sick leave EN MASSE to
back-up their demands for improved working conditions, salary increments, and other
items on their agenda.
CONVICT BOGEY – Society exaggerated fear to convict an ex-convict which is
usually far out of proportion to the real danger they present.
FURLOUGH – Authorization that permits inmate to leave containment for emergency
family crises, usually accompanied by correctional officer crises include visiting “death –
bed”.
HALF-WAY HOUSES – Are non-confining residential facilities for adjudicated adults
or juvenile or those who subject to proceedings. They are alternative to containment for
person not suited for probation who need period of re-adjustment to the community after
imprisonment.
Quarter houses – for probationers
Half houses – for parolees and for bound for release
EXPUNGE – The process by which the record of crime conviction is destroyed or sealed
after expiration of statutorily required time.
State used system – was referred to where prisoner where employed in the production of
goods and services used only in Government institute and agencies.
- The 12 tables (XII Tabulae) 450 B.C. The foundation of all public and private
law of the Romans until the time of Justinian, it is a collection of legal
principles engraved in metal tablets and set up in the forum.
The pioneers
1. William Penn - fought for religious freedom and individual right -first leader to prescribed
imprisonment for major offender -responsible for the abolition of death penalty and torture as a
form of punishment
2. Charles Montesquieu - French historian and philosopher, he believe that harsh punishment
wound undermined morality, and that appealing moral sentiment as a better of preventing crime.
3. Voltaire - most versatile of all philosophers during this period. He believe that fear of shame
was a deterrent to crime. He the legality sanctioned practice of torture.
4. Cesare Bonesana, Marchese de Beccaria - he wrote an essay entilled" "An essay on crime
and punishment". It represent the humanistic goal of Law.
5. Jeremy Bentham
PANOPTICON PRISON-prison consist of a large circular building containing multi cell around
the periphery.
6. John Howard - single sleeping cells, segregation of woman and youth, sanitation of facility
and abolition of fee system by which jailers obtained money from prisoner,
"The reformer of all time"
7. Alexander Maconochie
8 Walter Crofton
9. Manuel Montisimos---Director of Valencia Spain prison, who divided prisoner into companies
and appointed certain prisoner as petty officers incharge.
10. Domets of Franch- -established an agricultural colony for delinquent boys in 1839 providing
housefather as in charge of these boys.
11. Sir evelyn Ruggles Brise Director of English prison who open the BORSTAL
INSTITUTION for young offender.
12. Zebulon Brockway--- --training school type compulsory education of prisoners casework
methods-extensive used of parole-indeterminate sentence. (Elmira Reformatory) the "Hill'.
13. Elam Lynds-used to apply the ""absolute Silent System", or Congregate System at Auburn
Prison.
Early prison
Fortresses, Castles and Town gates
Mamertine Prison - the only early Roman place of confinement which is built under the
main sewer old Rome (64 B.C.)
Bastille Prisons -formerly a fortress of defense in Paris France and it was a symbol of
absolutism before the French revolution but in 17th century it was converted as prison on where
hundreds of political prisoners are tortured and died.
⚫ 1596-1776 - when England economic condition worsened and number of imprisonable crimes
(work ethics) increased filing up available prisons, deportation or transportation to colonies
became the solution.
⚫ HULKS - A sordid episode, from 1776 to 1875 where abandoned or unusable transport ships
anchored in rivers and harbors throughout the British Isles were used to confine criminals, young
and old male and female..
The BJMP
1. Municipal Jail
2. City Jail
3. District Jail
Provincial Jail
1. LGU/Provincial Gov.
Reference : QRC
-Cher Nonz