CIRCULAR
NO. 63-97
TO: ALL
JUDGES OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES,
MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS
SUBJECT: MODIFICATION
OF CIRCULAR NO. 4-92-A ON THE TRANSFER OF NATIONAL PRISONERS TO THE
BUREAU
OF CORRECTIONS IN MUNTINLUPA, METRO MANILA.
Clarification has
been sought by concerned Judges regarding their authority to allow the
commitment of national prisoners to national penal institutions other
than
the main national penitentiary at the City of Muntinlupa considering
that
Circular No. 4-92-A which directs all trial judges to issue commitment
orders of national prisoners immediately after their conviction
mentions
only the penitentiary in Muntinlupa as the institution to which these
prisoners
should be transferred. In the Department of Justice Circular No. 4 of
January
15, 1991, the Secretary of Justice directed Provincial and City
Prosecutors
to file with the proper Court immediately after the promulgation of the
judgment convicting a national prisoner, a manifestation requesting
said
Court to commit the prisoner directly to the national penal
institutions
mentioned in his Circular. These are:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
[1] National Prisoners
in Regions X and XI --- to be committed to the Davao Prison and Penal
Farm
at Panabo, Davao del Norte;
[2] National Prisoners
in Regions IX and XII --- to be committed to the San Ramon Prison and
Penal
Farm at Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur;
3. National Prisoners
in Region VIII --- to be committed to the Leyte Regional Prison at
Abuyog,
Leyte;
4. National Prisoners
in Palawan and Puerto Princesa City --- to be committed to the Iwahig
Prison
and Penal Farm at Puerto Princesa, Palawan; and
5. National Prisoners
in Mindoro Oriental and Mindoro Occidental --- to be committed to the
Sablayan
Prison and Penal Farm at Sablayan, Mindoro Occidental.
The purposes of Circular
No. 4-92-A which are to decongest provincial, city and municipal jails
and to effect better control and supervision over national prisoners
are
still served if these prisoners are transferred to the mentioned
national
penal institutions. Accordingly, the Judges concerned may, in the
exercise
of sound discretion, favorably act on the manifestations of
prosecutor’s
for direct commitment of national prisoners to these penal institutions.
It is understood
that: [1] all female national prisoners shall continue to be committed
to the Correctional Institution for Women at Mandaluyong, Metro Manila;
and [2] all other national male prisoners not included in the foregoing
enumeration shall be committed to the New Bilibid Prison at Muntinlupa
City.
October 6, 1997.
[Sgd.]
ALFREDO
L. BENIPAYOCourt
Administrator
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