April 27, 2023
Dear MJ Baetiong,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated Apr 27, 2023 01:00:45 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your Request
You asked for Parole.
Response to Request
Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of ALL of the information you requested:
A. Requirements in applying for Parole:
1. Process and file the request for Parole to the Office of the Secretary of Justice Located at the Records Section 2nd Floor De Las Alas Building Department of Justice P. Faura St., Ermita, Manila
2. Secure a duplicate copy of the request and receive a reply thru personal delivery or mail.
B. Documentary requirements for Parole:
1. Letter-request
C. Eligibility
I. Eligibility for Review of a Parole Case:
1. Inmate is serving an indeterminate sentence the maximum period of which exceeds one (1) year;
2. Inmate has served the minimum period of the indeterminate sentence;
3. Inmate's conviction is final and executory (in case the inmate has one or more co-accused who had been convicted, the director/warden concerned shall forward their prison records and carpetas/jackets at the same time);
4. Inmate has no pending case; and
5. Inmate is serving a sentence in the national penitentiary unless the confinement of said inmate in a municipal, city, district, or provincial jail is justified.
II. Disqualification of a Parole Case:
1. Inmates convicted of offenses punished with the death penalty or life imprisonment;
2. Inmates convicted of treason, conspiracy, or proposal to commit treason or espionage;
3. Inmates convicted of misprision of treason, rebellion, sedition, or coup d'etat;
4. Inmates convicted of piracy or mutiny on the high seas or Philippine waters;
5. Inmates who are habitual delinquents, i.e., those who, within a period of ten (10) years from the date of release from prison or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa, and falsification, are found guilty of any of said crimes a third time or oftener;
6. Inmates who escaped from confinement or evaded sentence;
7. Inmates who having been granted conditional pardon by the President of the Philippines shall have violated any of the terms thereof;
8. Inmates whose maximum term of imprisonment does not exceed one (1) year or those with definite sentence;
9. Inmates convicted of offenses punished with reclusion perpetua, or whose sentences were reduced to reclusion perpetua by reason of Republic Act No. 9346 enacted on June 24, 2006, amending Republic Act No. 7659 dated January 1, 2004; and
10. Inmates convicted for violation of the laws on terrorism, plunder, and transnational crimes.
For more information, you may visit the website of the Department of Justice relative to the process of the request for Parole at https://www.doj.gov.ph/request_for_parole.html. In addition, attached are IEC materials from the Parole and Probation Administration, for your reference.
If you have other questions, you may also contact the Board of Pardons and Parole at (02) 8927 8391 or (02) 8927 6842.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Atty. Bienvenido O. Benitez, Deputy Administrator thru his email address:
[email protected] or
[email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Pamela Denise Datu
FOI Receiving Officer
