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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 324 - CREATING
A REVIEW COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE INTEGRATION INTO ONE DEPARTMENT OF ALL
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INVOLVED IN CORRECTIONS
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| WHEREAS, the present correctional
system is highly fragmented in view of the fact that penal and prison
farms are under the supervision and control of the Bureau of
Corrections of the Department of Justice; provincial jails, under the
provincial governments; district, city and municipal jails, under the
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of the Department of Interior
and Local Government; and regional youth rehabilitation centers are
under the Bureau of Child and Youth Welfare of the Department of Social
Welfare and Development; WHEREAS, this fragmented set-up is aggravated by the non-institutional correctional programs handled by the Board of Pardons and Parole and the Parole and Probation Administration, which are under the Department of Justice; WHEREAS, this existing system is not conducive to efficiency, sound management and a unified development program for corrections; WHEREAS, in line with the vision of Philippines 2000, there is an urgent need to integrate, unify and modernize our correctional system under a single department; NOW THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order as follows: SECTION 1. A Review Committee on the Correctional System is hereby created composed of: a.
Secretary of Justice
—
Chairman
b. Head, NAPOLCOM Technical — Co-Chairman Committee on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice c. Director, Bureau of Corrections — Member d. Chief, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) e. Administrator, Parole and Probation — Member Administration f. Executive Director, Board of — Member Pardons and Parole (BPP) g. Director, Bureau of Child and — Member Youth Welfare (BCYW) Department of Social Welfare and Development h. Director, Assistance and Visitorial — Member Service, Commission on Human Rights (CHR) i. President, League of Provincial — Member Governors j. One Representative each from the following Non-Government Organizations (NGOs):
1. Episcopal Commission on
— Member
Prisoner’s Welfare/Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (ECOPRIW/CBCP) 2. Integrated Correctional Association — Member of the Philippines (ICAP) 3. Multi-Sectoral Council on Crime — Member Prevention (MULTICON) SECTION 2. The Committee shall perform the following functions: a.
Review and study existing correctional systems, policies and problems
and come up with measures including legislative and administrative
proposals to correct existing deficiencies in the correctional system.
For this purpose, the Committee can call on any and all government and
non-government agencies and instrumentalities and submit its
recommendations to the President, thru the Office of the Executive
Secretary, not later than 31 May 1996.
b. The Commission shall serve as Secretariat for the government agencies involved in corrections to monitor and follow-up the implementation of the outputs of the Strategic Planning Workshop on the Modernization of Correctional System held in Antipolo, Rizal last 13 to 15 November 1995. c. Create a technical working group which shall include non-government agencies involved in corrections. d. Formulate its rules and regulations. SECTION 3. The amount of Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00) is hereby allocated from the President’s Contingency Fund for the operations of the Committee. DONE in the City of Manila, this 12th day of April in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six. |
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