e-Dalaw BJMP Philippine Prison

e-Dalaw Service On BJMP Philippine Prison

BJMP Start Offering e-Dalaw

Manila, Philippines - There had been another good news came from our local prison here in the Philippines. We heard the Cebu inmates giving positive impression to the entire country and abroad, today Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) — Quezon City Jail had created another news that should receive positive nod from us.

Today, October 14, 2011, BJMP launched the "Electronic Dalaw" or simply e-Dalaw program to help inmates to contact their friends or relatives without leaving the jail. Contact meaning that they can talk to them and see them face to face at the same time, a lot better than just simply talking them on phone.

Each inmates are given five minutes per day for each conversation. The inmates need to wait outside the internet room of BJMP until their relatives got on-line. For the whole five minutes, inmates are able to talk to their relatives or friends, and even chat, while seeing them on the monitor.

The goal of this newly lanched e-Dalaw program is to enable inmates to get a more intimate conversation to their love ones especially to those who have relatives on the far places.

The program made possible through the project of Quezon City Jail Warden Supt. Joseph T. Vela and Assistant Solicitor General Karl Miranda. Quezon City piloted this kind of project and information are given to the media to introduce the system to the other jail facilities across the country, hoping that they can clone it too. Currently, five computer sets with webcam and headset with internet connection takes all calls for the program.

The e-Dalaw program runs on weekdays, Monday to Friday, from 9 in the morning to 12 noon then 1 to 4 in the afternoon.

Skype is the software application that is being used on BJMP to cater their e-Dalaw service.


How to avail e-Dalaw service of BJMP, Quezon City Jail ?

For those who wants to avail the said program, relatives of the inmates needs to send a request through email one week before the desired skype call on skypemeinjailqc@yahoo.com. The requestor needs to provide the date and time of the intended skype call, full name of the inmate is also one of the requirements.