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SUPERVISORY CIRCULAR NO. 17.
[1977]
 
 
 
SUPERVISORY CIRCULAR NO. 17 
[1977]
 
TO:  ALL JUDGES AND CLERKS OF COURT OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE, CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURTS, JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURTS  AND CITY AND MUNICIPAL COURTS.

SUBJECT:  REQUEST OF THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF PRISONS TO OBSERVE RESTRAINT IN ISSUING ORDERS IN HOLDING NATIONAL PRISONERS AND THEIR ESCORT GUARDS IN LOCAL JAILS.
  
Your attention is herby invited to the letter of Brig. Gen. Vicente R. Raval, Acting Director, Bureau of Prisons, Muntinlupa, Rizal, to the Chief Justice dated August 9, 1977, which is quoted hereunder:

"This is to respectfully request that proper representation be made to Judges and Clerks of Court to observe restraint in holding national prisoners and their escort-guards in local jails while awaiting final promulgation of judgment and/or extended dates of hearing which oftentimes are spaced far apart. We believe that it would be more economical for the government [Bureau of Prisons], without sacrificing justice, to hold Court hearings in succession or to order the prisoners and their escort-guards to return to their official station if the trial of their cases has been postponed and/or reset to future dates much later than the date of the last hearing.

"Due to the limited funds allocated for per diems and transportation expenses, this Office is faced with the problems of coping with the ever-increasing expenses for official travel of our guards and prisoners.

"In this connection, it is, therefore, requested that a Circular be issued to all Judges and Clerks of Court restraining them from issuing order holding the return of prisoners and their escort-guards to their place of confinement and station respectively, in instances where the hearings of the cases of these prisoners have been postponed and/or reset to later dates and which dates were spaced far apart."

Please be guided accordingly.

September 8, 1977. 
    
    

[Sgd.] RICARDO C. PUNO
Acting Judicial Consultant
 
 
 




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