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This study aimed to determine how inmates in San Jose City Jail manage to maintain a healthy relationship with their respective families amidst being incarcerated under pandemic (COVID-19) conditions. The researcher utilized a set of questionnaires to obtain data. Fifty respondents were selected via simple random sampling, while the interview schedule technique was employed to gather data as well. Descriptive statistics were used to interpret the data All the respondents were male. The majority of them were single and Roman Catholic. Their common age range from 28-37 years old, 12 among the respondents were high school graduates, 37 of the respondents used tagalong language, and 25 of the respondents’ cases are about drugs. Regarding their communication medium, they all used television, and 29 of the respondents used it often. And out of 50 respondents, 39 of them did not use radios, 28 did not use newspapers, 42 did not use magazines, 33 did not use flyers, 44 used cellphones (for public use) and 28 of them used it very seldomly. Most of the respondents were visited very seldomly. While others were visited once a week, every Sunday, very often, every other day. Other respondents had no visits at all for some reason. Some of them were visited by their families especially their mothers, fathers, and children. The common topics every visiting hours were all about family affairs which is 58% of the respondents. Being industrious, thrifty, submissive, had long patience, dealing with inmates, repentance for their misdeeds, became god-fearing, and learned to pray were the changes of inmates in communicating now that they are in jail. By daily calls, the love, trust, understanding, care, respect for the families of inmates are still there. Also, inmates obey advice, and every visiting hours only happy moments while inmates do not make their family feel stressed are the ways of inmates to restore and maintain a healthy relationship with their families amidst being faced with challenges of communicating behind prison bars. By visiting the inmates and if they are not able to visit, by calling, they give extra support and give what they need in jail like money and food. This makes inmates feel that they are still cared for and loved. Showing and telling inmates that their case is in progress makes inmates feel cared for. Every visiting hour, their families giving long but tireless preaching is the way of the family of inmates to restore and maintain a healthy relationship with the inmates even if faced with the challenges of communicating behind prison bars. |
