QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 551)
It cites Article II, Section 11 of the 1987 Constitution, which provides that the State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights.
Book IV, Title III, Chapter 8, Section 26 of the Administrative Code of 1987 is cited as embodying the rehabilitation of offenders.
It declares the last week of October and every year thereafter as “National Correctional Consciousness Week.”
To raise program standards and continuously create awareness for public participation in the re-socialization and reintegration of prisoners, probationers, and parolees into society.
It serves as the basis for citizens to extend support, humane understanding, and sympathy for rehabilitation while confined and under parole or probation, and for social acceptance upon release.
It states that families’ well-being and important role shall be emphasized as part of successful rehabilitation and reintegration.
Correctional workers and volunteers are identified as vital to safeguarding offenders and transforming them into normal and responsible citizens.
It recognizes their efforts and calls for their support, acknowledging their share in nation building through offender rehabilitation.
It states that both sectors are equally responsible for ensuring a successful correctional system and are called upon to rally behind efforts to heal social cleavages and reintegrate offenders into the mainstream community.
Prisoners, probationers, and parolees.
It states it is issued “by virtue of the powers vested in me by law.”
Social acceptance of offenders upon release, supported by humane understanding and sympathy during confinement and during parole or probation.
The proclamation links rehabilitation objectives to the constitutional mandate to value human dignity and respect human rights, suggesting that rehabilitation efforts should be humane and grounded on offender dignity.
You would cite the Administrative Code of 1987, Book IV, Title III, Chapter 8, Section 26, referenced in the proclamation as the rehabilitation of offenders provision.