INTRODUCTION

As one of the five pillars of the Criminal Justice System, the BJMP was created to
address growing concern of jail management and penology. Primarily, its clients are detainees
accused before a court who are temporarily confined in such jails while undergoing
investigation, waiting final judgement and those who are serving sentence promulgated by the
court 3 years and below. As provided under R.A. No. 6975, the Jail Bureau is mandated to take
operational and administrative control over all city, district and municipal jails. To fulfill this
mandate in a dynamic socio-political environment, the Jail Bureau has to keep abreast with the
expanding developments in jail management.

In February 2016, DILG Secretary Mel Senen S. Sarmiento issued a directive

requiring the personnel of the Jail Bureau to attend the 13th Performance Governance
System (PGS) boot camp. The PGS is a holistic and collaborative framework for
designing and executing roadmaps to long-term reforms. The program implies world-
class public service at the national level, which leads to a strong economy at the local
level.

During the training, Jail Bureau participants headed by then JCSUPT ALLAN S
IRAL went through an intensive training program to increase the capacity of governance
practitioners using PGS and develop the values and skills necessary in raising the
standards of governance and performance in an organization. After the 1st batch of
attendees, selected personnel were also privileged to attend the boot camp introduced
by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia. But when Secretary Sarmiento left the DILG, the
PGS was never discussed and fell into oblivion. 

When JAIL DIRECTOR ALLAN S IRAL became the Chief, BJMP, he aspired to
have a “BJMP Transformation Roadmap,” which the Bureau never had since its
inception. On May 12, 2021, a webinar entitled BJMP Good Governance under the New
Normal was conducted to select participants from the Jail Bureau by the former Director
of the Center for Police Strategy Management (CPSM) of the Philippine National Police
(PNP), an office responsible for integrating, coordinating and monitoring activities
across functions and other offices to ensure alignment of strategies, resources and
operations relative to the implementation of the PNP P.A.T.R.O.L Plan 2030. In the
same event, JDIR IRAL saw the opportunity to realize the Jail Transformation
Roadmap, hence, he immediately directed the creation of a Technical Working Group
(TWG) to facilitate said endeavour. The TWG was headed by JCSUPT PAULINO H
MORENO, JR, also a participant of the 13 th PGS Boot camp and currently the Officer-in-
Charge of the Office of Chief of Directorial Staff of the Jail Bureau.

In furtherance of this initiative, the assistance of the PNP-CPSM was sought

through its Director, PBGEN RANDOLF Y BALONGLONG and other resource persons
from the said office. With series of meetings of the TWG, initial outputs on the
environmental scanning which includes SWOT Analysis, Gap Analysis, Value Chain
Analysis, Customer Analysis and Identification of Service Deliverables were submitted
to the subject matter experts of the CPSM for critiquing. The CPSM applauded the TWG
for coming up with such a desirable output in just a short period of time and requested
for the conduct of a four-day workshop to work on the bigger parts of the transformation
roadmap.

On August 3-6, 2021, the BJMP in coordination with the PNP-CPSM conducted a
workshop on Crafting the Jail Transformation Roadmap which was participated by the
Command Group, Directors of Directorial Staff, Chiefs of Management Support Offices
and Regional Directors of the Jail Bureau. In the said workshop, the participants were
strategically grouped into four, aligning with the 4G management strategy of the BJMP
in order to maximize their expertise based on their present designations. The said
webinar resulted in the finalized vision, mission and charter statement and the strategy
map named as J.A.I.L. Plan 2040 (Journey for Advancement, Innovation and Long-term
development Plan 2040). Though this is quite a good start toward realizing the success
of a transformed jail management, there were more tasks to work on particularly the
agency scorecard, a management tool used in tracking the organization’s progress in
attaining its vision by 2040.Hence, continuous consultations with the CPSM were
conducted and through their assistance, a responsive agency scorecard was crafted
which encapsulates all the initiatives of the BJMP and their corresponding measures.

Along with these efforts, the Center for Jail Excellence and Strategy
Management (CJESM) was established which is primarily responsible for the
coordination and integration of the overall strategy dubbed as J.A.I.L. PLAN 2040 and
sustaining the execution, management and monitoring of the agency scorecard. It also
conducts periodic review and evaluation and make necessary adjustments and
amendments to the overall strategy. Additionally, to support the implementation of the
J.A.I.L. Plan 2040, the BJMP National Advisory Council (BJMP-NAC) was established
which will serve as institutional partners and advisers of the BJMP that will provide
needed external perspectives and guidance on key issues and concerns affecting the
organization such as generation of additional resources through channelled networks.

Through the successful implementation of the J.A.I.L. Plan 2040, the ambition of
the BJMP to ensure a high-quality, efficient, transparent, accountable, financially and
physically accessible, and nondiscriminatory delivery of public service will surely be
achieved as anchored in its vision of becoming a world-class agency highly capable of
providing humane safekeeping and developmental opportunities for Persons Deprived
of Liberty.