are institution for the confinement of person who are awaiting final disposition of their criminal cases and also the service convicted and punish with shorter sentence.
Jail
3 Types of Jail in General
Lock-up
Ordinary Jail
Work houses
is a security facility for the temporary detention of a persons held for investigation or awaiting preliminary hearing
Lock-up
houses both offenders awaiting court action and those serving short sentences usually up to three 3years.
Ordinary Jail
Jail farm or camp houses minimum custody offenders serving short sentences with constructive work programs.
Work Houses
4 Types of Jail based on its Jurisdiction.
Municipal Jail
City Jail
District Jail
Provential Jail
when was the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology was created? thru Republic Act 6975.
January 2, 1991
who took his oath of office on July 1, 1991 as the first Chief of the BJMP.
Director. Charles S. Mondejar
the warden is responsible for direction, coordination, and control of the personnel, the inmates and the programs of the institution.
Office of the Warden
Under the Office of the warden are the following:
Intelligence and Invistigation Team
Jail Inspectorate Section
Public Relations office
collates and submit intelligence information to the warden on the matters pertaining to jail conditions.
Intelligence and Investigation team
inspect the jail facilities, the personel and prisoners detainess and submit resports to deficiencies noted.
Jail Inspectorate Section
he undertakes the development of a systematic proccess of the treatment for this individual inmates and determine the degree of custody for such individual in his capacity as chairman of the Classification Board. He is also automatically serves as chair of the Disciplinary Board
Office of the Assistant Warden
is tasked with the gathering and collating of information and other data of every prisoner into a case study to determine the work assignment, type of supervision and degree of custody and restriction under which and offender must live in jail.
Classification board
hearing disciplinary cases involving violation of jail rules and regulations by the inmates.
Disciplinary board
Under Administrative Group there are (7):
Personnel Management branch
Record and Statistic branch
Property and supply branch
Budget and finance branch
Mess services branch
General services branch
Mittimus Computing branch
charge of all administrative functions of the jail.
Administrative Group
task for the assignment of personnel, procedures and selection, preparation of personnel reports and individual record files
Personnel management branch
keep and maintain book sheet and arrest reports, keep an orderly record of fingerprint and photographs, prepare and presents statistical data inmates.
Records and Satatistics branch
take charge of the safekeeping of equipments and supplies and materials needed for the operation of the jail.
Property and supply branch
take charge of all financial matter such as budgeting, financing, accounting and auditing
Budget and finance branch
prepare the daily menu, prepares and cook the food and serve it to the inamates.
Mess services branch
maintain and repair of jail facilities and equipments. it also task with the cleanliness beautification of the jail copound
General services branch
receive court decisions and compute the date of the full completion of the service sentence of inmates
Mittimus Computing branch