ISSUES AND CONCERNS IN

PAROLE ADMINISTRATION
 INTRODUCTION
Parole is the status of a convicted offender who has been conditionally released from
prison by a paroling authority before the expiration of his or her sentence, is placed under
the supervision of a parole agency, and is required to observe conditions of parole.
Parole is often mistaken for probation, but the two sentences are different. When
sentencing an offender to probation, a judge makes the decision that a prison sentence
should be suspended and the offender should serve his or her sentence in the community.
An offender is on parole when he or she first serves time in prison and then is
conditionally released by the paroling authority. However, similar to the constraints put on
the probationer, the parolee must abide by general and specific conditions or face
revocation of parole.
Parole Board is state paroling authority. Most states have parole boards that decide
when an incarcerated offender is ready for conditional release. Some boards also function
as revocation hearing panels.
 ELIGIBILITY FOR REVIEW OF A PAROLE CASE:
    1.  Inmate is serving an indeterminate sentence the maximum period of which exceeds
one (1) year;

    2.  Inmate has served the minimum period of the indeterminate sentence;  

    3.  Inmate's conviction is final and executory (in case the inmate has one or
more co-accused who had been convicted, the director/warden concerned
shall forward their prison records and carpetas/jackets at the same time);

    4.  Inmate has no pending case; and

    5.  Inmate is serving sentence in the national penitentiary, unless

the confinement of said inmate in a municipal, city, district or
provincial jail is justified.
 DISQUALIFICATION OF A PAROLE CASE:

• Inmates convicted of offenses punished with death penalty or life imprisonment;

• Inmates convicted of treason, conspiracy or proposal to commit treason or espionage;

• Inmates convicted of misprision of treason, rebellion, sedition or coup d'état;

• Inmates convicted of piracy or mutiny on the high seas or Philippine waters;

• Inmates who are habitual delinquents, i.e., those who, within a period of ten (10) years
from the date of release from prison or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less
serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa, and falsification, are found guilty of any
of said crimes a third time or oftener;
DISQUALIFICATION OF A PAROLE CASE:
• Inmates who escaped from confinement or evaded sentence;

• Inmates who having been granted conditional pardon by the President of the
Philippines shall have violated any of the terms  thereof;

• Inmates whose maximum term of imprisonment does not exceed one (1) year or
those with definite sentence;

• Inmates convicted of offenses punished with reclusion perpetua, or whose sentences

were reduced to reclusion perpetua by reason of Republic Act No. 9346 enacted on
June 24, 2006, amending Republic Act No. 7659 dated January 1, 2004; and

• Inmates convicted for violation of the laws on terrorism, plunder and transnational
crimes.
PAROLE SUPERVISION
• Prisoner shall be released upon grant of parole as evidence by released document.

• BPP shall send copy of release documents to the Director of BUCOR or Warden of jail.

• After release, parolee shall be placed under the supervision of Parole Officer.

• Period of supervision shall extent up to expiration of maximum sentence

• which should in the released document.

• If the parolee fails to report within 15 days from date of his

release, the PPO shall inform BPP. It shall be mandatory
for a parolee to comply with the terms and conditions
appearing in the released document.
 PROS
CONS
• It reduces prison and jail populations.
• A relative lack of punishment
• It reduces taxpayer expenses.
• Increased risk to the community
• Fresh opportunity and the chance to
• Increased social costs
start anew for criminals.
• Discriminatory and unequal effects
• Community support
• A chance for criminals to start committing
• Reduced risk of criminal socialization
crime again.
• Increased use of community services • Failure to find a job leads to unemployment,
homelessness, social maladjustment or
• Increased opportunity for rehabilitation
substance abuse.
The failure of parole and other forms of post-incarceration supervision
contributes to crime and increases the size of the prison population.More effective
parole could enable the nation to have less crime and less incarceration.