KIMBERLY D.

BORLING BSCRIM III-F

PENITENTIARY
1. The first three letters is a writing instrument; it also means to write or compose.
2. The 4th letter and 5th letter are common acronym for Information Technology.
3. The three succeeding letters are the abbreviation for a medical doctor specialized in ears, nose and
throat malady.
4. The 9th letter is the reciprocal of YOU.
5. The three remaining letters can also be seen in the last part of the name MARY.
J A I L AND P R I S O N

1. The first letter is the10th letter of the alphabet.

2. The next three letters are verb which means hurt, suffer or ache.
3. The 5th, 6th and 7th letters is a conjunction word that indicates connection and addition of items, words
etc.
4. The 8th, the9th and 10th letters came from the first three letters of the word prime.
5. The last three letters is a noun that describes a male descendant.
Activity1.WrittenDiscourse Directions: Provide a detailed assessment on the evolution of institutionalized
corrections or the prison systems from its primitive concept to contemporary approach. See page 99 for
the activity rubric.
Prison, Yesterday and Today
Before discussing the evolution of prison let us first define the word Prison. What is prison? It
refers to a penitentiary, an institution for the imprisonment of persons convicted of major/ serious crimes
for a longer periods of time. Prison systems have started early and evolved immensely too.
On earlier days, prison was more like hell. Imagine being confined in an area under the Main
Sewer for a week, now imagine being confined there for years, disgusting, right? Imagine being separated
and sent to the other side of the world because of committing a crime, isn’t it too much? Yesterday’s way
of prison system involved hard labor where massive tasks are shouldered to the prisoners. Deprivation of
everything is also present, allowing only the essentials for living. There is also degradation, using
offensive uttering insulting words or languages on the part of prison staff to the prisoners to degrade or
break the confidence of prisoners. Isolation or Solitary Confinement –non-communication, limited news,
“the lone wolf” will also stab you to death, slowly but surely. The worst of all, Corporal Punishment,
imposing brutal punishment or employing physical force to intimidate a delinquent inmate. Everything
was so inhumane.
Today, persons deprived of liberty are already endowed with human rights. They are no longer treated as
mere physical bodies, they are under the umbrella of numerous laws, protected. However, perennial
problems are still knocking on the door, insufficiency or lack of food, congestion or overcrowding, drugs
inside the jail, brusque treatment of jailguards and many more. The Philippine Government is trying their
best to address the problems in prison system.
 Activity2.DecisionTreeStrategy Research on the issues and problems confronting Philippine prisons and
jails. Pick at least three (3) issues/problems. Formulate practical solutions for the improvement of on a
particular issue including its advantages and disadvantages.

Insufficiency or lack of food

Gardening inside
Increased food Family/relatives should
the correctional
allotment. contribute to the food expenses.
facility.

*Healthier
NO *Not all foods, those
DISADVANT correctional with diet and *Not every
AGES facilities have allergic persons
enough space reactions will deprived of
*Vegetables and liberty has a
healthier foods will be for gardening be given the
* Will enable persosns food they devoted
served like those in
deprived of liberty to need. family, some
urban areas
take food products at the *It will lessen the the loath their kin
calorie level they need to expenses alotted. * Tools and *Persons for
take daily equipments deprived of committing
*It will mitigate the can be usesd liberty will
* Low mortality rate in boredom of persons crime.
as weapons oftentimes get
correctional institutions deprived of liberty, to see their
for persons deprivedof atleast they have family.
liberty will get the something to do, an
nourishment from what exercise
they eat.
 Congestion or overcrowding

Use of early
release
Alternative programs that provide
incentives Building more
mental health services, drug
(parole,house prisons
diversion programs, or house arrest.
arrest, or good
behavior)

*Could free up
*Good much space
alternative to *Aggrieved
families/vitims within the
prison may not agree *Could free up prisons a nd *Linient
overcrowding. and yearn for much space prevent faster punishment may
within the *Expensive
*More spaces more maximum not deter would-
would equal punishment. prisons and *Requires so capacity be offenders
better conditions prevent faster much time
*Divert
or inmates maximum
offenders from
would be more capacity
prison
resources left to admission
distribute within
the inmates. 21
 Drugs inside the jail

Higher ratio of Strict policies

Strict ambush inspection
Jailguards, during visitations

*Uninformed
*There would inspection is
be no crucial in
unwanted locating *It would
*Not enough stuffs or *Families cause terror
*Every *It would and fear to the
persons manpower prohibited maybe deter persons
things that discouraged in persons
deprived of deprived of deprived of
liberty will be could visiting their liberty use
penetrate relatives. liberty.
observed and illicit things
kept an eye. inside the for they might
correctional fear being
facilities caught.
ASSESSMENT FILLINTHEBLANKS(Formative) Instructions: Read the statements carefully and write
the appropriate answer on blank spacesprovided in eachitem. Kindly seepage160 fortheanswer key.
1.Prisons were constructed during the medieval as substitute for corporal punishment.
2. Prisons are institutions for the incarcerations of offfenders of heinous crimes for a longer periods of
time.
3. Jails are places of confinement of persons such as detainees or convicts serving shorter sentences,
usually up to three years of imprisonment.
4. Hulks are abandoned warships converted into prisons and are also called “floating hells”.
5. The Hospice of San Michele was first established in 1704 for rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
6. Lock-up Jail is a security facility, common to police stations and for temporary confinement of an
individual held for investigation.
8. Bilibid Prison was constructed during the Spanish Regime and was the first penitentiary in the
Philippines.
9. Ordinary Jail is the type of jail commonly used to detain a convicted criminal offender to serve
sentence less than three years.
10. The Commandancias serves as jails for prisoners confined in provinces and major towns or cities
where the Spanish colonizers exercise strong control.
CriticalAnalysis(Summative)
Instructions.Pleaseclickthislink : https://www.hurights.or.jp/archives/focus/section2/2005/03/human-
rights-behind-barsthemanila-city-jail-experience.html Read the article online and write a Critical Analysis
on the topic.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Article II of the 1987 Constitution specifically provides that the State values human dignity and
guarantees full respect for human rights and that no one loses his dignity and these rights regardless of
what he or she may have done. This policy of the state applies particularly to the treatment of deprived of
liberty under the correctional system they are in. Not only the State is concern of the persons deprived of
liberty but also the United Nations, both are setting national and international standards on the treatment
of persons deprived of liberty and in investigating and monitoring the conditions they are in conducts on
regular basis the spot checking of conditions obtaining in the various correctional institution/facilities in
the country.
Foremost, the provision of basic needs of prisoners is the prime factor to be fulfilled before any
effective rehabilitation program can be committed and tackled. Though persons deprived of liberty, they
are still endowed with the same basic rights for human rights. It is melancholic to say that the most
common problem of persons deprived of liberty is the insufficiency of food provision due to the delay in
release of food allotment and inadequate or unsanitary food preparation. Imagine 35php budget for three
meals, what would you eat? Rice and a can of sardines, I would maybe starve myself to death. Another
major problem is the living space, the basic confinement area. By human standards, all accommodations
provided for the use of persons deprived of liberty, particularly sleeping accommodations shall meet all
requirements of health, with due regard to climactic conditions, content of air, floor space, lighting and
ventilation. For scores of year until now , correctional institutions in the Philippines are usually
dilapidated, congested, no longer suited for human existence, having defective comfort rooms resulting
to unsanitary conditions , lack of sleeping paraphernalia, undersized cells with poor ventilation and
defective water system and lacks potable water. Due to these old prevailing problems, persons deprived
with liberty have a lower chance of rehabilitation and a higher chance of getting illnesses or else become
recidivist.
What is the essence of correctional system? It is used as rehabilitation center, where there should
be organized care and treatment program that suits well and could shape a person deprived of liberty into
a productive one as he/she is released in the community. For example, people with different diseases,
corona virus, diabetes, cancer, and brain tumor, what happens if you inject them with the a medication
and treatment for diabetes? Will those who have Corona Virus, cancer and brain tumor be healed too?
BIG NO, because each of them are needing a specific treatment. Persons deprived of liberty are just like
my example too, each one of them needs a specific treatment, a novice, recidivist, children, women, all of
them needs to be addressed specifically to attend their needs and treatment. Regardless of the crime the
persons deprived of liberty did, they are still humans, flawed yet still have feelings, and they should not
be labelled as sinners and a curse, let’s see them as a subject for change, worthy to create a bigger future
with silver lining.