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The physical environment is an active agent in the rehabilitation/habilitation. The environment can support the treatment alliance between the client and staff, not least by conveying a feeling of trust, security and self-determination. It is also reasonable to assume that the environment itself can reinforce or "redirect" and change the identity we carry. Incarceration comes with many losses. The question is whether the environment can compensate for the losses, in any case not amplify them. Despite the limited living conditions provided in institutional care, there are good opportunities through the design of the environment to create well-being.