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RA 9495 Section 46

RA 9495 Section 46

The Provincial Jail Service.

Section 46

SEC. 46. The Provincial Jail Service. - There shall be established and maintained in the province, within two months upon the commencement of the corporate existence of the province by the DILG, a secured, clean, adequately equipped and sanitary jail facility for the custody and safekeeping of prisoners, any fugitive from justice or person detained awaiting investigation or trial and/or transfer to the national penitentiary, and/or violent mentally ill person who endangers himself or the safety of others, duly certified as such by the proper medical health officer, pending the transfer to a mental institution. The provincial jail service shall be headed by a provincial jail warden who must be a graduate of a four-year course in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, nursing, social work or criminology who shall assist in the immediate rehabilitation of individuals or detention of prisoners. Great care must be exercised so that human rights of these prisoners are respected and protected, and their spiritual and physical well-being are properly and promptly attended to.

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CitationRA 9495 Section 46 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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