Prepared by:

Irene M. Soledad, RCrim.

Introduction
REFORMATION PROGRAM: THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
• The TC Program represents an effective, highly-structured
environment with
defined boundaries, both moral and ethical.
• The primary goal is to foster personal growth. This is
accomplished by reshaping an individual’s behavior
and attitudes through the PDL community working
together to help themselves and each other, restoring
self- confidence, and preparing them for their eventual
reintegration into the communities, families and friends as
a productive and law-abiding citizen.
• Patterned after Daytop TC, New York, which is
the base of the TC movement in the world, the
BuCor TC Program was adopted as part of the
Bureau’s holistic approach towards PDL
rehabilitation. (It is extensively observed in BJMP-
manned and controlled jails)
• It is implemented primarily but not limited to drug
dependents.
REFORMATION PROGRAM: THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
• The TC approach has been continuously proven
worldwide as an effective treatment and
rehabilitation modality among drug dependents,
and has been noted to be effective in many
prisons.
• TC is a behavioral modification program.
• The Behavioral Modification Program gradually
reshapes and restructures the PDL within a family-like
environment, wherein every member acts as his
brother’s keeper.
• TC family members go on with their daily
activities which would develop a
strong sense of responsibility and concerns for
each other’s welfare.
• Constant monitoring of progress and evaluation
is observed and performed by TC-trained
personnel. (In BJMP, they are TC Focal Persons
who are Welfare and Development Officers of
jail units.
Therapeutic Community
• an environment that helps people get help while
helping others
• a treatment environment
• the interactions of its members are designed to
be therapeutic within the context of the norms
that require for each to play the dual role of
client-therapist
At a given moment, one may be in a client role
when receiving help or support from others
because of a problem behavior or when
experiencing distress. At another time, the same
person assumes a therapist role when assisting or
supporting another person in trouble.
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY: How It Looks Like
• The operation of the community itself is the task of the
residents, working under staff supervision.
• Work assignments, called “job functions” are arranged
in a hierarchy, according to seniority, individual
progress and productivity.
• These include conducting all house services, such as
cooking, cleaning, kitchen service, minor repair, serving
as apprentices and running all departments,
conducting meetings and peer encounter groups.
Therapeutic Community:Salient Features
• The primary “therapist” and "teacher" is the community
itself, consisting of peers and staff, who, as role models of
successful personal change, serve as guides in the
recovery process.
• TC adheres to precepts of right living: Truth/honesty; Here
and now; Personal responsibility for destiny; Social
responsibility (brother’s keeper); Moral Code; Inner person
is “good” but behavior can be “bad”; Change is the
only certainty; Work ethics; Self-reliance; Psychological
converges with philosophical (e.g. guilt kills)
It believes that TC is a place where: One can change
– unfold; the group can foster change; individuals must
take responsibility; structures must accommodate this;
Act as if – go through the motion.
There are 5 distinct categories of activity that help
promote the change:
• Relational/Behavior Management
• Affective/Emotional/Psychological
• Cognitive/Intellectual
• Spiritual
• Psychomotor/Vocational-Survival Skills
 Cardinal rules of TC:
“NO drugs, NO violence or threat of violence, NO sexual
acting out and NO stealing! Everything an officer does is
meant to erase “street behavior” and to lead the
offender to be committed to “right living”.
Therapeutic Community:Mission

To promote human and social transformation

among our c lientsand among ourselves.
Therapeutic Community:Vision
By the end of this decade, TC shall have
become the c orporate culture of the Parole and
Probation Administration permeating its plans,
programs, and practices, and c onfirming its status
as a model c omponent of the Philippine
Correctional System.
 TC PHILOSOPHY
Iam here because there is Where else but in our
no refuge finally, from myself. c ommon ground can Isee
Until Iconfront myself in the such a mirror?
eyes and hearts of others, Here, together, Ican at last
Iam running. appear clearly to myself,
Until Isuffer them to share my not as the giant of my dreams
secrets, nor the dwarf of my fears, but
Ihave no safety from them. as a person, part of the whole,
Afraid to be known, with my share in itspurpose.
Ican know neithermyself In this ground, Ican take root
nor any other, and grow not alone anymore,
Iwill be alone. as in death but alive to myself and
to others.
 TC LAYUNIN
AKO’Y NARIRITO SAPAGKAT HINDIKO NA
MATATAKASAN ANG AKING SARILI
HANGG ANG HINDIAKO NAGIG IN G
MATAPAT SA PAGPUNA SA AKING SARILI
SA MATA AT PUSO NG IBA, AKO’Y
TUMATAKBO
HANGGANG HINDIKO INILALAHAD ANG
LABING AKING MG A LIHIM, AKO’Y
WALANG KAPAYAPAAN.
SA MALAKING TAKOT NA SARILI’Y
MABUNYAG, HINDIKO MAUUNAWAAN
ANG AKING SARILI
AT PAGKATAO NG IBA.
SA DILIM MANANATILING NAG-IISA.
Review on the Relevant Topics in Institutional
Corrections and Non-Institutional

Corrections in Philippine Setting

CORRECTIONS - is the fourth pillar of the Criminal Justice

System composed of two major and
equally significant components:
1. Institution-Based Corrections (Institutional Corrections); and
2. Community-Based Corrections (Non-Institutional
Corrections).
The three executive departments of the
government
1. DOJ - manages the national prisoners

A. Bureau of Corrections (BUCOR) - with a principal

task of the rehabilitation of prisoners so
they can become useful members of society upon
completion of their service of sentence.
B. Board of Pardons and Parole (BPP) -
recommends to the President the prisoners
who are qualified for parole, pardon or other
forms of executive clemency in the form of
reprieve,
commutation of sentence, conditional pardon
and absolute pardon.
C. Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) - conducts post-
sentence investigation of petitioners for probation as referred by
the courts, as well as pre-parole/pre-executive clemency
investigation to determine the suitability of the offender to be
reintegrated in the community instead of serving their sentence
inside an institution or prison; exercise general supervision over all
parolees and probationers and promotes the correction and
rehabilitation of offenders
outside the prison institution.
2. DILG - manages inmates who are undergoing
investigation, awaiting or undergoing trial,
awaiting final judgment and those who are
convicted by imprisonment of up to three (3) years.
A. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)
has jurisdiction over all municipal, city and
district jail national wide.
B. Provincial Local Government Unit operates all
provincial jails.
C. Philippine National Police (PNP) likewise
maintains detention facilities in its different police
stations nationwide.

3. DSWD - manages sentenced youth offenders.

 PHILIPPINE PRISON SYSTEM

1. Bureau of Corrections - under the administration of

Department of Justice
- It was renamed from Bureau of Prisons by Executive
Order 292 passed during the Aquino administration. It
states that the head of the Bureau of Correction is the
Director of Prisons who is appointed by the President of
Philippines with the confirmation of the Commission on
Appointment
 National Prison/Insular Prison

1. Bureau of Prisons/Corrections-Muntinlupa
City
A. NBP - Maximum Security Prison
B. Camp Sampaguita - Medium Security Prison
C. Camp Bukang Liwayway - Minimum Security
Prison
2. Reception and Diagnostic Center (RDC)
3. Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) -
Mandaluyong City
4. Penal Colonies:
a. Iwahig Prison and Penal farm in Palawan
b. Davao Prison and Penal farm in Davao del Norte
c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in Zamboanga City
d. Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Occidental
Mindoro.
e. Leyte Regional Prison in Abuyog Leyte