QUALITY OF LIFE FOR FEMALE PRISONERS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, CLASS IIB, YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Women who are serving a prison sentence will lose their personality and identity so that it can have an impact on their quality of life due to the rules and procedures of life in a correctional facility. Quality of life describes someone’s emotional, social, and physical well-being including the ability to act in everyday life. This study aims to determine the quality of life for female prisoners in the correctional facility, class IIB, Yogyakarta. The type of this study was observational research applying a descriptive survey design and a cross-sectional approach. The number of samples in this study was 38 respondents taken by using the accidental sampling technique. The results showed that based on age, the majority of respondents were in the early adult category (18-40 years old), namely 65.8%. Based on the level of education, they were in the secondary education category, namely 50%. Furthermore, based on the length of prison, they were in the 1 – 5-year category, namely 57.9%. The quality of life for female prisoners was in the moderate category (63.2%) for the physical health domain, in moderate and good categories (having the same scores, namely 36.8%) for the psychological domain, in moderate category (63.2%) for the social relation domain, and in moderate category (60.5%) for the environmental domain. The conclusion is that the quality of life of female prisoners in the domains of physical health, social relation, and the environment was in the moderate category. Meanwhile, for the psychological domain, it is in the moderate and good categories.

 Keyword:  Quality of Life, Female Prisoners