SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
SENATE BILL No.J.234 
Introduced by SENATOR FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. 
Explanatory Note 
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The Criminal Justice System, essentially. is the system or process in 
the community by which crimes are investigated, and the persons 
suspected thereof are taken into custody, prosecuted in court, and 
punished if found guilty, provision being made for their correction and 
rehabilitation. In the Philippines, the Criminal Justice System is made up of 
five (5J components, namely: law enforcement. prosecution, judiciary, 
corrections, and the community. These five (5J elements are known as the 
Five Pillars of the Criminal Justice System. On them obviously depend the 
effective and efficient operation of the system. 
Among the five pillars of the justice system, it is the corrections pillar 
that is given the mandate to bring about the correction, rehabilitation 
and reintegraHon of criminal offenders as law abiding and productive 
members of our society. 
With the development of our penal system 
directed towards placing an increasing importance on correction and 
rehabilitation, it is incumbent upon the State to provide the necessary 
measures and assistance to bring about the full rehabilitation and 
reintegration of erstwhile criminal offenders into the mainstream of society 
without further relapse into criminal behavior. 
Appropriate positive 
interventions should be instituted in order for these people not to go back 
to iheir sullied past. 
Experiences of those entrusted by law to provide correctional and 
rehabilitative assistance to criminal offenders suggest that after convicts 
have passed through the penal components - either unconditionally as 
by full service of the term of imprisonment imposed on them, or by parole 
or pardon -
most of them emerged from prison ill-prepared and ill-
equipped to meet the demands and realities of life in the outside. 
Regrettably, some of them commit other crimes; and thus defeating the 
very purpose of our penal system, which is the rehabilitation of the criminal 
offender. 


One major positive intervention that the state may make to address 
this concern is to establish a Community Corrections Development Center 
(CDCq in each region of the country to provide facilities and services 
indispensable 
to 
help 
former 
convicts 
become 
psychologically, 
emotionally, spiritually, socially, physically and economically prepared to 
go back to mainstream society. The Center shall function as a research, 
training and show window of community corrections program. For the 
recently released convicts, the Center will serve as a halfway house, a 
transition point between jail and freedom. For clients with special clients, 
i.e. drug abusers, the Center will serve as a venue for specialized 
treatment. 
In view of the foregoing, the enactment and approval of this Bill is 
earnestly recommended .. 
FERDINAN 
R. M1RCOS, JR 


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SENATE 
SENATE BILL Nol? 34 
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Introduced by Senator FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. 
AN ACT PROMOTING THE CORRECTION AND REHABILITATION OF CRIMINAL 
OFFENDERS AND FACILITATING THEIR REINTEGRATION INTO THE 
COMMUNITY, ESTABLISHING FOR THE PURPOSE COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS 
DEVELOPMENT CENTERS IN EACH REGION OF THE COUNTRY, 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of 
the Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Community 
Corrections Development Center Act ... 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - (a) It is hereby declared the 
policy of the state to promote the correction and full rehabilitation of 
criminal offenders placed on probation, parole, executive clemency, first-
time minor drug offenders, Juvenile in Conflict with the Law and promote 
their development as productive members of the society; 
(b) 
It is the policy of the State to prepare the reintegration of 
criminal offenders into the society without further relapse into criminal 
behavior; 
(c) 
It is the policy of the State to facilitate the reintegration of 
criminal offenders to face the challenges and demands to be expected 
in their return to the community; 
(d) 
It is the policy of the State to provide the necessary assistance 
and measures to help criminal offenders lead a law-abiding and 
productive life after release. 
SECTION 3. Community Corrections Development Center. - There is 
hereby established a Community Corrections Development Center in 
each region of the country, herein referred to as the "Center," which 
shall be managed, operated and maintained by the Parole and 
Probation Administration, 
Department of Justice. 
The Center shall 
primarily serve as research and training facility for the development of 
community corrections - the community-based program of treatment of 
offenders, as a cheaper alternative to imprisonment. It shall also function 
as the community correctional halfway house for former inmates 
released on parole and pardon. 


SECTION 4. Power and Functions. -
The Center shall have the following 
functions and responsibilities: 
(a) 
To conduct research studies for the development of 
community-based type of correction as an effective and cheaper 
alternative to imprisonment; 
(b) 
extensions 
institution; 
To provide its clients the appropriate programs that are the 
of the rehabilitative efforts carried out within the penal 
(c) 
To provide discharged prisoners or inmates with the necessary 
facilities for their gradual transition frorn incarceration to community life; 
(d) 
To ensure that continued care and guidance, and statutory 
aftercare supervision are provided to those who have been granted 
probation, parole, or pardon and are on active supervision as 
probationers, parolees and pardonees; 
(e) 
. To . provide livelihood training programs for probationers, 
parolees and pardonees in cooperation with other government agencies 
and private entities; 
(f) 
To accept or receive donations and other conveyances by 
gratuitous title or funds, rnaterials and services for use in the rehabilitation 
of its clients consistent with its mandate, subject to the usual accounting 
and auditing rules and regUlations; 
(g) 
To call upon any agency of the Government for such 
assistance as may be necessary in the perforrnance of its functions; 
(h) 
Perforrn such other functions as may be directed by the 
Secretary of the Department of Justice and the President of the Republic 
of the Philippines. 
SECTION 5. 
Rules and Regulations. -
The Parole and Probation 
Administration-Department of Justice shall, within ninety (90) days upon 
approval of this Act, formulate the rules and regulations necessary for the 
implementation of the provisions of this Act. 
SECTION 6. 
Appropriations. -
The amount of 
TWO HUNDRED 
MILLION PESOS (Php200,OOO,OOO.OO) needed to carry out the provisions of 
this Act is hereby authorized to be appropriated in the General 
Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law, 
in 
addition to the amount appropriated for the Parole and Probation 
Administration-Deportment of Justice 
SECTION 7. 
Fees and Charges. -
The Center may impose fees and 
other charges sufficient to cover the costs of subsidizing the operation 
and maintenance of the facilities of the Center. 


SECTION 8. 
Repealing Clause. -
All laws, decrees, rules and 
regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed 
or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 9. Separability Clause. -
In case any provision of this Act 
is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions hereof which 
are not affected thereby shall continue in full force and effect. 
SECTION 10. Effectivity. -
This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) 
days from its publication in the Official Gazette and in any newspaper of 
general circulation. 
Approved,