Inmates especially don't have any reason to trust the hierarchy here.

[Wen Ning, on balance, likes the barge, but he is emphatically aware of what a loss of autonomy feels like, even if the things you have to do might be the things you'd have opted into anyway.]

Punishment in a real place means something that'll follow you a long time, and lose you what you want for the time that's right in front of you. None of that is so when we're here.