Sentence Reduction for Good Conduct Act

Section 1(a) provides that for each full month, commencing with the first day of arrival at a provincial or Insular jail or prison, a deduction of five days is allowed if the prisoner has not violated discipline or prison rules and has labored with diligence and fidelity on all assigned tasks.
Section 1(b) provides that after the prisoner has served two full years, the deduction becomes eight days for each month thereafter under the Act’s good-conduct and diligence requirements.
Section 1(c) provides that after the prisoner has served five full years, the deduction becomes ten days for each month thereafter.
Section 1(d) provides that after the prisoner has served ten full years, the deduction becomes fifteen days for each month thereafter.

Section 2 requires that for a grave violation of prison rules and discipline, or for persistent lack of fidelity in work performance, the prisoner must forfeit all the time gained for the month in which the delinquency occurred.
Section 2 authorizes, based on the aggravated nature and frequency of offenses, the deduction of a portion or all of previously gained time.
Section 2 allows restoration where special mitigating circumstances exist, and the prisoner’s standing may be restored in whole or in part.
Section 2 requires restoration to be based on the prisoner’s conduct record or the circumstances under which the violation was committed.

Section 3 provides that when a prisoner is prevented from laboring by sickness, or by an infirmity not evidently imposed by the prisoner, or by other cause for which the prisoner is not responsible, the prisoner is still entitled to the same monthly good-conduct deductions as provided in Section 1.

Section 4 provides that for especially meritorious conduct, the whole or any portion of the time lost through infractions of prison rules or discipline may be restored.

Section 5 grants detention prisoners who voluntarily offer in writing to perform labor assigned to them a credit under the Act.
Section 5 requires the credit to be deducted from the sentence that may be imposed on them upon conviction.

Section 6 requires that all prisoners actually undergoing sentence at the time the Act goes into effect receive diminution for the time served since January 1, 1900.
Section 6 mandates that the diminution for this past time follows the Act’s provisions.

Section 7 requires wardens or officers in charge of Insular or provincial jails or prisons to make and keep records and take necessary further action to carry out the Act.
Section 7 subjects prison administration to review and to rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Public Instruction.

Section 8 directs expedited passage under section two of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.
Section 9 provides that the Act takes effect on its passage.

The Act is Act No. 1533.
The Act is dated August 30, 1906.
The Act is entitled “AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DIMINUTION OF SENTENCES IMPOSED UPON PRISONERS CONVICTED OF ANY OFFENSE AND SENTENCED FOR A DEFINITE TERM OF MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS AND LESS THAN LIFE IN CONSIDERATION OF GOOD CONDUCT AND DILIGENCE.”