SC ADMINISTRATIVE CIRCULAR NO. 49-2001, September 17, 2001

This year’s National Correctional Consciousness Week,
per mandate of Proclamation No. 551 of then President Fidel V. Ramos,
will be observed from 21 to 27 October 2001.. On 28 October 2001, the
Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (ECPPC) of the Catholic
Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) will celebrate its 14th
Prison Awareness Sunday (PAS). In line with such celebration, the
Commission has requested that the Judiciary initiate activities that
will help ackieve the aims of the National Correctional Consciousness
Week.

In support of this observance and to promote
awareness in the Judiciary of the plight of the inmates conformably with
the mandate of the law, Judges and court personnel of the Regional
Trial Courts, Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in
Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts are
encouraged to visit the provincial, city, or municipal jails and prisons
within their respective jurisdictions or to hoIcTother related
activities, and assist in whatever effective and legitimate way the
celebration of the Prison Awareness Sunday.

The Executive Judges shall schedule the jail
visitation by the judges and court personnel under their respective
administrative supervision in a manner that would not disrupt court
proceedings. Affected parties and their counsel shall be notified in
advance of any changes in the court calendar by reason of this activity.

The Office of the Court Administrator shall implement this Administrative Circular.

17 September 2001.