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STATISTICS (Population as of December 3, 2012) CRIMES Against Property Against Person Drug Related Crimes Against Personal Liberty Committed by Public Officer Against Chastity Against Natl Security TOTAL 712 179 1054 44 15 2 2 2008 SENTENCE Reclusion Perpetua Indeterminate Life Imprisonment Definite 40 years (ART 70 RPC) On Appeal TOTAL 202 814 380 237 375 2008
CIVIL STATUS Single Married Widow Common Law Wife Separated TOTAL Age 1619 109 127 153 2008 Unknown 18-21 22-39 40-59 60 and above TOTAL 11 6 511 1252 228 2008 467 703 221 328 289 2008
HISTORY Corrections in the Philippines started during pre colonial times. It was however organized on individual community basis. It was only during the Spanish regime when an organized corrective service was made operational. When the Americans took over in the 1900s, the Bureau of prisons was created. Aside from that, different correctional institutions were also established like the Old Bilibid Prison (1847) and San Ramon prison and penal far. To provide separate facilities for women offenders and to cater to their gender difference, Correctional Institution for Women was created under Act no. 3579 on November 1929. And just recently, on 2008, Correctional Institution for Women was extended in Mindanao.
B. INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING Counselors of CIW conduct individual counseling to inmates through conducting an interview. Ms. Cherry Huet, one of the counselors of CIW gathers data of the inmates regarding their criminal history, inmates family and personal relationship, employment history, and even their childhood. These informational data helps her in assessing the needs of the inmates as well as assessing the inmate s capacity for learning and working, physical or other limitations, behavioral issues and other factors that may contribute to the inmates successful rehabilitation. When she cannot handle anymore the issues shared by the inmates, she refers another counselor to the inmates (She usually refers Ms. Dorothy, one of the psychologists and expert counselors of CIW). If they detect that a particular inmate already needs psychotherapy, wherein the inmate is mentally ill or their behavior is not controllable anymore, they usually transfer them to National Center for Mental Health. According to Ms. Cherry, as a counselor, she must appear empathetic and welcoming to the inmates and she must also look credible enough so that inmates could open up easily to her.
C. GROUP COUNSELING One of the most effective group counseling of CIW is their spiritual program through the use of a Total Family Approach. The family of the inmates is usually assisted since CIW believes that inmates can be a symptom of a deeper problem or dysfunctioning within the family. CIW focuses on maintining harmonious relationship between the crime offender and their family. Mostly, the inmates of CIW commit crime for a family related reasons (the family lacks basic needs: food, house, money, clothes, etc). It is evident enough that the influence of family members has a high impact in the rehabilitation process of a crime offender, and so, this approach is extremely used in CIW.