| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
HV 9807.5 M57 A3 2000 |
| Status |
Available |
| Itemnotes |
with autograph/dedication from Esther Chavez |
| Barcode |
17884 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9719212608 (hardbound)
- International Standard Book Number - 97192126
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - HV 9807.5 M57
- Item number - A3 2000
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Misa, Eriberto B., Jr.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Double life sentence :
- Remainder of title - a chronicle of the life of a son and his father and their legacy of prison service /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Eriberto B. Misa, Jr.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Davao City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Easter Works Pub.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2000.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 227 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - with appendices
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - The education of a problem child -- Prisons : a mission -- Muntinlupa -- My Jesuit education -- A young man's war diary -- With freedom comes a wife -- Walking a tightrope -- A front seat at an Air-Naval Battle -- Destination--Leyte -- Reinstatement as Prisons Director -- Post war pursuits -- Papa's last wish -- He made prison life bearable -- After papa's footsteps -- Back to Muntinlupa -- Death of a President -- Prisons politics -- From prison farms to logging camps -- Election to the Constitutional Convention: the dream of my youth realized -- The 1971 Constitutional Convention and Martial Law -- Life after Con-Con -- "Retirement" and "emigration" -- A presidential recognition and unexpected Papal honor -- In the Bureau, there is no escape from troubles -- In prison, one need not lose hope -- A second reprieve -- Appendices: All of papa's children -- Quotable quotes of E.B. Misa, Sr. -- My family -- My thoughts on life -- The Ateneo ROTC volunteers of World War II -- Bureau of Correction data -- Directors of the Bureau of Prisons -- Code of conduct for public servants
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Eriberto B. Misa, Director of the Bureau of Prisons from 1937 to 1949, served under five Philippine presidents before, during and after World War II. An honest and fearless military man, he initiated reforms in the Philippines' antiquated prison farms. As a result, prisoners were treated more humanely and their dignity kept intact. His peers and wards held him in high esteem. When he died in 1949, the Manila Bulletin eulogized him with words: "He made prison life bearable." This is the essence of his 25 years of dedicated service to the Bureau.
Eriberto B. Misa Jr. born in Zamboanga, Philippines was raised in the various prison compounds where his father worked. He saw first hand his father's involvement and the significance of his vision. This served as his inspiration to make a vow to preserve his legacy in the Bureau.
A veteran of Death March, Misa, Jr. became his father's trusted aide in managing the tentative handling of Filipino guerilla prisoners in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa during the Japanese Occupation. After the war, he joined an oil company, an involvement that proved to be financially rewarding. He had to leave it, however, to fulfill his father's last wish, that one of his five sons serve in the Bureau of Prisons and continue his mission.
In 1949, President Elpidio Quirino appointed Eriberto B. Misa Jr. as assistant superintendent of San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm, the same position his father held upon joining the Bureau. Within five years he was promoted to Assistant Director, only to be ousted in 1959 due to political intrigues and maneuverings. He left the service and went into private business. This was interrupted only by his election as delegate to the Second Philippine Constitutional Convention in 1971. Twenty years later, in 1991, Misa Jr. was called back to the Bureau of Prisons by President Corazon Aquino. He returned as Prisons Director. Just as his father expected, he served the Bureau with honor and made prison life bearable during his watch. In 1992, Pope John Paul II conferred on him the knighthood of St. Sylvester for his work.
This is the life story of a son and his father."
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Misa, Eriberto B., Jr.
- Form subdivision - Autobiography
- General subdivision - Family.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Fathers and sons.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Penology
- Geographic subdivision - Phlippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War II
- General subdivision - Philippine Theater.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Civil service
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Filipino American family.
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