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Penal Management

This document discusses various aspects of penal management and corrections. It defines key terms like corrections, penology, punishment, prison reform, prison, jail, halfway house, rehabilitation, and solitary confinement. It also outlines the roles of different agencies in operating jails and prisons. Several historical figures who contributed to prison reform are mentioned, such as Zebulon Brockway and Alexander Maconochie. Various modern and ancient forms of punishment are listed, including execution, imprisonment, fines, probation, and ancient practices like shaming, exile, and torture. Statistics on executions in the Philippines and education levels of inmates are also provided.

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Penal Management

This document discusses various aspects of penal management and corrections. It defines key terms like corrections, penology, punishment, prison reform, prison, jail, halfway house, rehabilitation, and solitary confinement. It also outlines the roles of different agencies in operating jails and prisons. Several historical figures who contributed to prison reform are mentioned, such as Zebulon Brockway and Alexander Maconochie. Various modern and ancient forms of punishment are listed, including execution, imprisonment, fines, probation, and ancient practices like shaming, exile, and torture. Statistics on executions in the Philippines and education levels of inmates are also provided.

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Penal Management

Corrections - is typically carried out by government agencies and involves the punishment, treatment, and
supervision of persons who have been    convicted of crimes.               
                      
Penology - The study of the punishment of crime and prison management.Is a section of criminology that
deals with the philosophy and practice to repress criminal activities via an appropriate treatment and
supervision of persons convicted of criminal offenses.
                   
Punishment - is the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense."The penalty
inflicted".
                        
Prison reform - is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons and aiming a a more effective penal
system.

Prison - is a place in which people are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal
freedoms.
             
Jail - is a short term detention facility.

Halfway house - also called recovery house or sober house - is a place to allow people to begin the process
of reintegration with society while still providing monitoring and support; this is generally believed to
reduce the risk of recidivism or   relapse when compared to a   release directly into society.

Rehabilitation - it came from latin word "habilis" literally fit or suitable. Its meaning was expanded to
mean "restore to sound operation" or "to establish the good reputation".
                                                                                      
Solitary confinement - is a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated fro any human
contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff.
Jail Prison

 a place of  a place of long term


detention; a place confinement for
where a person those convicted of
convicted or serious crimes.
suspected of a  Bureau of
crime is detained. Corrections
 BJMP  DOJ
 DILG  holds people
 holds people convicted of
awaiting trial and crimes;sentenced for
people sentenced a longer term.
for a short
duration.
Zebulon Reed Brockway - regarded as the father of prison reform in the United States. Believed that the
primary reason to have a prisoner in custody was to rehabilitate and not simply to punish. Warden at the
Elmira reformatory from 1876 to 1900. He introduced the following:

1. a program of education
2. training in useful trades
3. physical activity
4. indeterminate sentence
5. inmate classification
6. incentive program.

Alexander Maconochie - (1787 -1860) - a Scottish naval officer, geographer and penal reformer. His two
basic principle of penology were that:

1. as cruelty debases both the victim and society, punishment should not be vindictive but should aim
at the reform of the convict to observe social constraints.
2. a convicts imprisonment should consist of task, not time sentences with release depending on the
performance of a measurable amount of labor.

Modern Form/Method  of Punishment

1. Execution - for capital offenses. ex. death by lethal injection


2. Imprisonment/Incarceration
3. Fines
4. Probation and Parole
5. House Arrest - is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to his or her residence.
Travel is usually restricted if allowed at all.

Ancient Form/Method of Punishment


1. shame punishment
2. exile/banishment
3. payment to the victim
4. branding - (Stigmatizing) - is the process by which a mark is burned into the skin of a living person.
5. flogging - (flagellation) - is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body.
6. mutilation - (maiming) - is the act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of
any living body usually without causing death.
7. burning
8. beheading
9. torture

* In the Philippines so far, 17 persons were executed


   by hanging, 84 persons were executed by electric
   chair, 7 persons were executed by lethal injection.

* Majority of inmates confined in national prison did


   not finish high school, 6% never went to school or
   were illiterate and 3% earned a college degree.

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