NON INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTIONS

(CA 2)
Community Based Corrections

Course Description:
To study

the rehabilitation and

treatment services for criminal
offenders like the community-based
correction programs.

Community-Based Treatment
Programs
are those that are intended to treat

criminal offenders within the free

community
as alternatives to
confinement.
It includes all correctional activities
directly addressed to the offender
and aimed at helping him to
become a law-abiding citizen.
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Basic Principles Underlying the

Philosophy of Community-Based
Treatment of prisoners
Humanitarian Aspect

- low self-esteem; broken homes

Restorative Aspect
- capability to improve

Managerial Aspect
- cost of custody

Forms of Community-Based
Programs
1. PROBATION

It is a disposition whereby a defendant, after

conviction of an offense, the penalty of which
does not exceed six (6) years of imprisonment
is released subject to the conditions imposed by
the releasing court and under the supervision of
a probation officer.
- by virtue of P.D. 968 Philippine Probation
Law July 24, 1976 as amended by R.A. 10707
July 2015.
- Probation Administration under DOJ
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PROBATIONER one who is on

probation

Advantage of probation:
to promote the offender's
rehabilitation through communitybased treatment
can continue to work
prevents tendency of broken homes
relieves prison congestion

Forms of Community-Based
Programs
2. PAROLE

- is the process of suspending the sentence of a

convict after having served the minimum of his
sentence without granting him pardon, and
prescribing the terms upon which the sentence shall
be suspended.
- a form of conditional release after a prisoner has
served a portion of his sentence.

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- it is not claimed as right but rather granted as

privilege

Parolee refers to a prisoner who

is released on parole

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The Board of Pardons and Parole

a quasi-judicial body created under Act
no.4103 Indeterminate Sentence Law
or the Parole Law Dec 5, 1933
its chairman is the DOJ Sec. with four
(4) members; at least one is a woman
At present time it is under the authority
of the Parole and Probation
Administration (PPA)

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Who are Disqualified for Parole?

with capital punishment or life imprisonment,
convicted of treason, conspiracy or proposal to

commit treson, misprision of treason, rebellion,

sedition or piracy,
habitual offenders,
escaped from confinement or evade sentence,
have been granted conditional pardon but
violated terms and condition thereof,
with term of imprisonment not exceeding one
year
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Forms of Community-Based
Programs
3. CONDITIONAL PARDON
- releasing a prisoner through Executive Clemency. A prisoner who
is already reformed or rehabilitated but who cannot be paroled.
-exemption of an individual, within certain limits or conditions, from
the punishment which the law inflicts for the offense he had
committed resulting in the partial extinction of his criminal liability
- a kind of pardon under which a convict is required to comply with
certain requirements.
- given same set of rules and conditions as the parolee
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Pardonee refers to a prisoner who

is released on conditional pardon.
Executive Clemency
- refers to Reprieve, Absolute
Pardon, Conditional Pardon and
Commutation of Sentence as may be
granted by the President of the
Philippines
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Among the conditions usually imposed

shall not commit any crime and conduct himself in an orderly

manner
live in parole residence; should have consent by BPP if
residence change;
reporting to municipal judge or such officer designated by BPP
once a month for the first year and thereafter once every two
months as maybe required by the parole officer;
not to indulge in any injurious habits and avoid places or
persons of disreputable or harmful character;
visitation at reasonable time by PNP PD or his designated
officer or Executive Officer of BPP for inquiries concerning
parolees conduct or conditions;
pay Php50.00 a month to the cashier DOJ for indemnity
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Distinction of Parole from Probation

Parole

Probation

judicial function(COURT)

administrative function by executive

branch of the Govt.(BPP)

has served minimum sentence
extention of institutional treatment

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(within
15days after the
decision)
substitute for
imprisonment

immediately after conviction