CREATING A NATIONAL SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS WEEK

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I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The Secretaries of
the Department of Justice, Interior and Local Government and Social Welfare and
Development; the Directors of the Bureau of Corrections, of Jail Management and
Penology, the Probation Administrator and the Chairman of the Board of Pardons
and Parole, and an appropriate number of representatives from the private
sector, representing the media, the concerned national and major academic,
civic and religious organizations, shall compose the National Secretariat for the
celebration of the “National Correctional Consciousness Week.” The Judiciary,
the Legislature and the Commission on Human Rights shall be encouraged to
participate.

Section 2. The National
Secretariat shall be responsible for the formulation of a national plan of
activities, and for encouraging and coordinating with local groups for the
celebration.

Section 3. The Secretariat is
authorized to call directly on other departments, bureaus, offices, and other
instrumentalities or agencies of the government and to encourage active
participation and involvement of the private sectors in the accomplishment of
the above tasks.

Section 4. The annual theme of
the celebration shall be explored by means of print, radio and TV media,
lectures, symposia, conferences, seminars, congresses, and other fora.

Section 5. The occasion shall
promote activities that will improve the living conditions, basic services to
and administration of offenders, including their rehabilitation and
reintegration and safeguarding programs.

Section 6. Corresponding awards
shall be given to outstanding organizations, groups and individuals who have
excelled and contributed considerably to enhancing and promoting the well-being
of the correctional system in general and the offenders in particular.

Section 7. This Executive Order
shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this
15th day of March in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety
five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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