1.

Alcoholics - those inmates who suffer from alcoholism or those engaged in the
improper compulsive intake of alcohol which may result in physical, social and
behavioral problems.

2. Bisexual - are those inmates who have a sexual attraction or sexual behavior
toward both males and females, and may also encompass sexual attraction to
people of any gender identity or to a person irrespective of that person’s
biological sex or gender.

3. Carpeta - otherwise known as “inmate record or jacket”, contains the personal

and criminal records of inmates, documents related to his/her incarceration such
as but not limited to: commitment order, subpoenas, personal identification,
orders from the court, and all other papers necessarily connected with the
detention of an inmate.

4. Child or Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL), also known as “Youth
Offender” - a person under eighteen (18) years old who is alleged as, accused of or
adjudged as having committed an offense under the Philippine laws.

5. Chief Custodial Officer - is the personnel in-charge in the overall supervision of all
custodial functions.

6. City Jail - is a facility or a place of confinement for those inmates who are
sentenced with a penalty from (1) one day to three (3) year imprisonment.

7. Clustering of Jails - the designation of a municipal or city Jail as a facility for

one or more adjacent municipalities in order to maximize the utilization of
personnel and other resources. The “host” city or municipality is named as a
district to accommodate inmates from the municipalities clustered to it.
8. Commitment Order - a written order of the court, or any other agency
authorized by law to issue, entrusting an inmate to a jail for the purpose of
safekeeping during the pendency of his/her case.

9. Contraband - any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by

jail rules that would pose as security hazards or endanger the lives of inmates.

10. Conjugal Visitation – refers to the visit by the wife for a short period, usually
an hour, more or less, to her incarcerated husband during which they are
allowed privacy and are generally understood to have sexual contact.

11. Detainee - a person who is accused before a court or competent authority and
is temporarily confined in jail while undergoing or awaiting investigation, trial, or
final judgment.

12. District Jail - is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates coming from a
city or clustered municipalities who are waiting or undergoing trial or serving
sentence of one (1) day to three (3) years.

13. Drug Dependents - are those inmates who have a psychological craving for
 habituation to and abuse of or physiologic reliance on a chemical/drug
substance.

14. Drug Users - are those inmates who take substances/drugs that can alter their
body and mind works.

15. Escape-Prone Inmates - are inmates who are likely and have the tendency to
escape from the jail facility.

16. Gay - is a male homosexual inmate, who experiences romantic love or sexual
attraction to fellow male inmates.

17. High Risk Inmates in BJMP Jails - are those considered as highly dangerous
or with high probability of escaping or being rescued because of the gravity of
the crimes they are accused of or have a propensity for being troublemakers or
initiators of jail riots and disturbance and who require a high degree of control
and supervision. Particularly included herein are those charged with heinous
crimes, such as murder, terrorism, kidnap for ransom, violation of R.A. No. 9165,
the imposable penalty for which is from life imprisonment to death, etc. These
also include those who have a record of escaping from jails, recidivists, habitual
delinquents, and those with severe personality or emotional disorders that make
them dangerous to their fellow inmates or the jail personnel.

18. High Profile Inmates in BJMP Jails - are those who are not necessarily
charged with heinous crimes but are prominent figures in society or public
figures whose cases have drawn public interest.

19. Infirmed Inmates - are those inmates who are physically or mentally weak for
a prolonged period of time specifically caused by age or illness.

20. Inmate - is the generic term used to refer to a detainee or prisoner.

21. Inmates with Disability - are those inmates who have an impairment that
may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some
combination of these.

22. Inmates with Other Nationalities - are those inmates who are foreign nationals.

23. Instrument of Restraint - a device, contrivance, tool or instrument used to

hold back, keep in, check or control inmates; e.g., handcuffs.

24. Jail - is a place of confinement for city and municipal detainees/prisoners, any
fugitive from justice, or person detained awaiting or undergoing investigation or
trial and/or pending transfer to the National Penitentiary, and/or violent,
mentally ill person who endangers him/herself or the safety of others, duly
certified as such by the proper medical or health officer, pending transfer to a
mental institution.

25. Jail Aide – is an inmate who requires less supervision than other inmates.
 Although he/she may be assigned special tasks, he/she has no special privileges,
and is not allowed to work alone nor exercise any authority over other inmates.

26. Jail Incident -any untoward or uncommon actions, events, or conditions such
as jail break, riot, noise barrage, stabbing or assault upon personnel that occurs
in jail and perpetrated by any person, which may or may not have followed or
depended upon another action of grave or serious consequences such as escape,
injury, death, fire, flood, earthquake, or other calamity which affects the jail.

27. Jailbreak - the escape from jail by more than two (2) inmates by the use of
force, threat, violence or deceit or by breaching security barriers such as by
scaling the perimeter fence, by tunneling and/or by other similar means or by
burning or destructing of the facility or a portion of the facility with or without
the aid of jail officer or any other person.

28. Jail escape - it is an act of leaving from jail of an inmate through unofficial and
illegal ways or without any legal order from the authorities.

29. Jail Warden - person charged with the overall operational and administrative
control of jail.

30. Illegal Contraband- are those that are unlawful in themselves and not because
of some extraneous circumstances (i.e. dangerous drugs, weapons, potential
weapons, explosives).

31. Lesbian - is a female homosexual inmate, who experiences romantic love or

sexual attraction to fellow female inmates.

32. Mentally ill - are those inmates who suffer from mental illness and afflicted
with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness.

33. Mittimus Order - a warrant issued by a court bearing its seal and the signature
of the judge, directing the jail or prison authorities to receive inmates for the
service of sentence.

34. Municipal Jail - is a facility or a place of confinement for those who are
sentenced with a penalty for a term not exceeding six (6) month imprisonment.

35. Nuisance Contraband - are those that may not be classified as illegal under
the Philippine laws but are forbidden by jail rules i.e. cellphone, money or other
commodities of exchange such as jewelry, appliances and gadgets, excessive
wearing apparels and sleeping paraphernalia, intoxicating liquors, cigarettes,
pornographic materials, gambling paraphernalia and other products that are
considered as instruments for vices since they threaten the security, fire safety,
sanitation of the facility, and the orderly activities of the jail.

36. Offender - refers to a person who is accused of violating or transgressing laws

and ordinances passed by competent authorities in the Philippines.
37. Officer - in general, the term officer shall refer to all uniformed personnel of the
BJMP; when referring to rank, however, the term officer shall refer to those
holding the rank of jail inspector and above.

38. Penology - a branch of criminology dealing with jail management and

administration of inmates.

39. Pregnant Inmates - a female inmate bearing a developing embryo, fetus, or

unborn offspring within her body.

40. Prisoner - an inmate who is convicted by final judgment.

41. Provincial Jail – is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates who are
sentenced with imprisonment from six (6) months and (1) one to three (3) year
imprisonment.

42. Provincial Jail Administrator - refers to the official duly designated to head the BJMP
Provincial Jail Administrator’s Office and to oversee the implementation of jail
services of all district, city and municipal jails within its territorial jurisdiction.

43. Reformation - means amending or improving by changing inmate's behavior or

removing his or her faults or abuse and removing or correcting an abuse a
wrong or error.

44. Regional Director - refers to the official duly designated to head the BJMP
Regional Office, to oversee the implementation of jail services within his/her
jurisdiction covering provincial jail administrator’s offices, district, city and
municipal jails, and to ensure the enforcement of laws and regulations related to
the functions his or her office as mandated of him or her.

45. Regional Office- means an office, which has administrative and operational
control over its provincial jail administrator’s offices, district, city and municipal
jails.

46. Rehabilitation - a program of activity directed to restore an inmate’s self-

respect and sense of responsibility to the community, thereby making him/her a
law-abiding citizen after serving his/her sentence.

47. Safekeeping - refers to the temporary custody of a person for his/her own
protection from the community he or she comes from, and for the community he
or she comes from.

48. Senior Citizens Inmates - are those inmates who have reached sixty years
old, or those who have retired from work, and those who generally belong to the
"old age" bracket.

49. Sex Offenders - are those inmates who committed crimes involving sex,
including rape, molestation, pedophilia, sexual harassment and pornography
production or distributions.
50. Sexual Deviates - inmates who have a type of mental disorder characterized
by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia,
sadomasochism, or exhibitionism or inmates whose sexual practices are socially
prohibited.

51. Suicidal Inmates - are those inmates who have a tendency to commit suicide
or to harm themselves.

52. Transgender - are those inmates whose gender identity or gender expression
does not match with their innate sexual identity.

53. Transfer -the delivery, notwithstanding his/her or their appeal, of an inmate or

inmates sentenced to more than three (3) year imprisonment, from any BJMP
manned jail to any of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) prisons or penal
farms or the delivery of an inmate/s from BJMP-manned jail to another jail
facility.