While prisons are often described as places of pain, despair and hopelessness, studies show that some prisoners under certain conditions report positive life changes happening in prison. This paper explores the connections between trust and desistance processes, specifically between the experience of being trusted and ‘tertiary desistance’. I argue that trust can be an engine of positive change in prison and that the experience of being trusted might even acquire additional value from the low-trust and risk-sensitive environment that most prisons normally offer prisoners. Finally, I discuss whether prisons that manage to get this balance right deserve to be called ‘reinventive prisons’.

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信任的变革力量：探索改造监狱中的第三级拘留

虽然监狱经常被描述为痛苦、绝望和绝望的地方，但研究表明，在某些条件下，一些囚犯报告说监狱中发生了积极的生活变化。本文探讨了信任和停止过程之间的联系，特别是被信任的体验和“三级停止”之间的联系。我认为信任可以成为监狱积极变化的引擎，被信任的经历甚至可能从大多数监狱通常为囚犯提供的低信任和风险敏感环境中获得额外价值。最后，我讨论了设法实现这种平衡的监狱是否应该被称为“再创监狱”。