This paper asks how the logics of globalized supply chains—particularly through fixes, risk, speed and stoppages, and motility—are articulated in carceral space. We employ critical logistics in conversation with carceral geographies and critical mobilities to examine prison transfers, the routine movement of incarcerated people between carceral sites, as a logistical system designed to fix carceral crises; which is to say, to make prisons viable. This work emerges from preliminary research on prison transfers, conducted from 2018 to 2019, including interviews with advocates and formerly incarcerated people and analysis of data and administrative documents obtained from the New York Department of Corrections, among others. First, we locate the emergence of contemporary practices of logistical transfer management (“transfer logistics”) in the prison boom of the 1980s–1990s. We then examine the present-day transfer system to consider how risk calculation and carceral fixes inform movement throughout prison constellations as well as how transfers disrupt the fragile worlding that happens in prisons. Finally, we turn to how these logics are being reshaped and reiterated in the era of neoliberal urban planning through “justice hubs.”

本文探讨了全球化的供应链的逻辑，尤其是通过修复，风险，速度和停工以及动力等方面的逻辑，是如何在监狱空间中表达出来的。我们采用重要的后勤手段与监狱地域和关键动员进行对话，以检查监狱转移情况，被监禁人员在各个监狱地点之间的日常活动，以此作为旨在解决监狱危机的后勤系统；也就是说，使监狱可行。这项工作来自2018年至2019年对监狱移交的初步研究，包括与拥护者和以前被监禁的人进行的访谈以及对从纽约惩教署获得的数据和行政文件的分析。第一，我们将后勤转移管理（“转移物流”）的当代实践的出现定位在1980年代至1990年代的监狱热潮中。然后，我们研究了当今的转移系统，以考虑风险计算和大括号修复如何通知整个监狱群的活动，以及转移如何破坏监狱中脆弱的世界。最后，我们转向在新自由主义城市规划时代如何通过“司法中心”来重塑和重申这些逻辑。