Text of the provision
Art. 235. Maltreatment of prisoners. - The penalty of prisión correccional in its medium period to prisión mayor in its minimum period, in addition to his liability for the physical injuries or damage caused, shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee who shall overdo himself in the correction or handling of a prisoner or detention prisoner under his charge, by the imposition of punishments not authorized by the regulations, or by inflicting such punishments in a cruel and humiliating manner. If the purpose of the maltreatment is to extort a confession, or to obtain some information from the prisoner, the offender shall be punished by prisión mayor in its minimum period, temporary special disqualification and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000), in addition to his liability for the physical injuries or damage.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Prisión correccional in its medium period to prisión mayor in its minimum period — on top of liability for the physical injuries or damage caused — is imposed on a public officer or employee who overdoes himself in correcting or handling a prisoner or detention prisoner, by punishments the regulations do not authorise or by inflicting them cruelly and humiliatingly. Where the purpose is to extort a confession or obtain information, the penalty is prisión mayor in its minimum period, temporary special disqualification and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000), again in addition to liability for the injuries or damage.
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Related provisions
- Article 234 — Refusing To Serve Office.
- Article 236 — Anticipation Of Duties Of Office.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
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