The provision
ARTICLE 88. Arresto menor. -The penalty of arresto menor shall be served in the municipal jail, or in the house of the defendant himself under the surveillance of an officer of the law, when the court so provides in its decision, taking into consideration the health of the offender and other reasons which may seem satisfactory to it. TITLE FOUR EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND OF CIVIL LIABILITY RESULTING FROM CRIME CHAPTER ONE EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY SECTION ONE.-Total extinction of criminal liability
Key points
Article 88 governs how the penalty of arresto menor is served. It is served in the municipal jail, or in the offender's own house under the surveillance of an officer of the law, when the court so provides, taking into account the offender's health and other satisfactory reasons.
Arresto menor is the lightest of the deprivation-of-liberty penalties. The article appears among the provisions on the execution and service of penalties and precedes the Code's title on the extinction of criminal and civil liability.
Arresto menor — imprisonment of one day to thirty days — is the lightest of the deprivation-of-liberty penalties, and the article reflects that by allowing it to be served in the offender's home under official surveillance where the court finds reasons such as the offender's health. The provision sits among the rules on the execution and service of penalties, and immediately precedes the Code's title on the total and partial extinction of criminal liability, including prescription of the crime and of the penalty.