What does trust look like in prison? The concept of trust has emerged as a popular topic across a variety of disciplines, especially in criminology. Yet, little attention has conceptualized trust through a relational perspective. This presentation will examine trust among incarcerated women in a correctional facility by contrasting compositional approaches (which focus on individual characteristics in isolation) with a network approach (which focuses on interdependence and emergent structure). In addition, the source of the data, the Women’s Prison Inmate Network Studies (WOPINS, NIJ 2016-MU-MU0011), will be discussed. Overall, the presentation will emphasize the promise of a network perspective for examining research questions within correctional settings, specifically, and criminology and criminal justice broadly.