Text of the provision
Art. 86. Reclusion perpetua, reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision correccional and arresto mayor. -The penalties of reclusion perpetua, reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision correccional, and arresto mayor, shall be executed and served in the places and penal establishments provided by the Administrative Code in force or which may be provided by law in the future.
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
The penalties of reclusión perpetua, reclusión temporal, prisión mayor, prisión correccional and arresto mayor are served in the places and penal establishments provided by the Administrative Code then in force or by later law.
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On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
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