Characterization of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at Solano District Jail, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya

By virtue of Republic Act 6975, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology under the Department of the Interior and Local Government was created. The act paved way on the creation of more jails efficiently manned by professionals, qualified, trained and committed jail personnel all over the country. In the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, there is a lone district jail located in Lorenzo St., Curifang, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya. The jail is manned by a commissioned officer as warden with three hundred forty six Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) under their care and supervision. The researcher made used of a questionnaire to gather the needed data from the respondents. Interview was also conducted in order to verify some vague answers on the questionnaire. Findings of the study on age, most of the respondents are young with an age bracket of 28–37 years old, majority are males, single, Roman Catholic, reached/finished elementary schooling, not employed, committed crimes against special laws and were arraigned, attended 1–5 times court hearings, been in jail for 1 month-6 months and most claimed that they were alleged suspects of the crimes charged against them. The null hypothesis is accepted for some select variables (sex, highest educational attainment and occupation before detention) which means that the mentioned profile variable have something to do with the commission of crimes whereas all other profile variables have no effect in the commission of crimes which means simply that the null hypothesis is rejected. On findings of the study, it can be concluded that majority of the respondents’ select profile variables are similar with each other despite the fact that PDLs came from all walks of life.