Between 2015 and 2019, 41 throughcare support officers (TSOs) supported people serving short sentences leaving custody across 11 Scottish Prison Service establishments. The role of prison officers in the provision of throughcare in the community was an innovation in Scotland and represents a new approach to the long-standing challenges around supporting reintegration from custody. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with 20 TSOs, this article examines their reflections on their role, bringing attention for the first time to the front-line perspectives of those involved in this novel approach to throughcare. TSO’s reflections revealed their growing awareness of the ‘pains of desistance’ and the challenges around reintegration, insights which had not been apparent to them in their prior work as officers working only in prison. The community ‘place’ of the TSO work also enabled a renewed awareness of the limits of rehabilitation within a prison and their own institutionalization after years of working in the custodial environment.

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“我们是“自由放养”的监狱官员，苏格兰监狱服务中心通过护理支持官员在羁押场所和社区工作的经验

2015 年至 2019 年期间，41 名全程护理支持人员 (TSO) 为 11 家苏格兰监狱服务机构的短期服刑人员提供支持。监狱官员在社区提供全程护理方面的作用是苏格兰的一项创新，代表了一种新方法，可以应对围绕支持从拘留中重新融入社会的长期挑战。本文利用对 20 位 TSO 进行半结构化访谈的数据，考察了他们对自己角色的反思，首次引起了人们对参与这种新型全程护理方法的人员的前线观点的关注。TSO 的反思表明，他们越来越意识到“停止的痛苦”和重新融入社会的挑战，这些见解在他们之前作为只在监狱工作的官员的工作中并不明显。