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ACT 4103 - OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “INDETERMINATE SENTENCE LAW”, TOOK EFFECT ON
DECEMBER 5, 1933.
ACT NO. 4221 OF THE PHIL. ASSEMBLY (PROBATION ACT) - ESTABLISHED AN ADULT PROBATION
LAW BUT WAS ABOLISHED IN 1937 AFTER TWO (2) YEARS OF EXISTENCE ON THE GROUND OF
UNCONSTITUTIONALITY IN THE CASE OF PEOPLE VS. VERA, 37 O.G. 164.
COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 3203 -TOOK EFFECT ON DECEMBER 3, 1924 =1ST JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY LAW OF THE LAND.
DR. S.G. HOWE OF BOSTON -FIRST MAN TO USE THE WORD “PAROLE”. HE USED THE WORD IN A
LETTER TO THE PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK IN 1869, AFTER SOME AMERICAN PRISON
REFORMS WHO OBSERVED THAT THE IRISH PRISON SYSTEM PAVED THE WAY FOR THE
APPROVAL OF THE LAW --- CREATING ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
EDWARD N. SAVAGE - EX- CHIEF OF POLICE OF BOSTON WHO BECAME THE FIRST PROBATION
OFFICER EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
PAROLE - A METHOD BY WHICH A PRISONER WHO HAS SERVED A PORTION OF HIS SENTENCE IS
CONDITIONALLY RELEASED BUT REMAINS IN LEGAL CUSTODY, THE CONDITION BEING THAT IN
CASE OF MISBEHAVIOR, HE SHALL BE IMPRISONED.
PAROLE AND PROBATION ADMINISTRATION (PPA) - HEADED BY ADMINISTRATOR. HANDLES THE
INVESTIGATION PETITIONERS FOR PROBATION & SUPERVISION OF PROBATIONER,
PAROLEES, AND CONDITIONAL PARDONEES.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 603 - “THE CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE CODE” WHICH PROVIDES FOR
YOUTH PROBATION LAW THAT WAS SIGNED ON DECEMBER 10, 1974 AND TOOK EFFECT JUNE
10, 1975.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 968- REESTABLISHED THE ADULT PROBATION LAW WHICH WAS SIGNED
BY PRES. FERDINAND MARCOS ON JULY 24, 1976. “PROBATION LAW OF 1976”
REPUBLIC ACT 9344- THE JUVENILE JUSTICE WELFARE ACT OF MAY 2006 AMENDING P.D. 603.
SIR WALTER CROFTON - (CHAIRMAN OF THE DIRECTORS OF IRISH PRISONS- 1856) - INTRODUCED
THE IRISH SYSTEM