Name: 超級監獄中的頭 24 小時發生了什麼 (What Happens in First 24 Hours in Supermax Prison)
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T11:34:11.000Z
Duration: 15 min 2 s

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As the van barrels down the highway, you're locked in the back, flanked by two US Marshals in full body armor.

當貨車在高速公路上疾馳時，你被鎖在後排，兩側是兩名全副武裝的美國法警。

情態副詞

Another sits directly across from you, silent, expressionless, his eyes never leaving yours.

另一個人坐在你的正對面，沉默不語，面無表情，目光從未離開過你。

基礎被動語態

The walls are padded, and the windows are blacked out.

It's just you, these three men, and a bunch of Glock 22s.

只有你、這三個人和幾把格洛克22手槍。

Your handcuffs have been triple locked, and your hands sweat inside a pair of oversized mittens.

你的手銬上了三道鎖，你的手在一雙特大號手套裡出汗。

Chains bind your ankles and wrap tight around your waist.

鐵鏈捆住你的腳踝，緊緊纏住你的腰部。

Every bump in the road sends a jolt of pain through your body.

道路上的每一次顛簸都會讓你的身體感到陣陣疼痛。

There's no real chance of escape, but these guys are treating you like Hannibal Lecter.

你根本沒有逃跑的機會，但這些人對待你就像對待漢尼拔-萊克特一樣。

Sure, you can be violent, you can be extreme, but only when you've got no other choice.

當然，你可以暴力，可以極端，但只有在別無選擇的情況下。

There was never even a warning that you were going to be transferred.

甚至從來沒有人警告過你會被調走。

At about 4am, correctional officers burst into your special housing unit, or shoe cell, and strip searched you.

凌晨 4 點左右，管教人員衝進你的特殊監舍（即鞋牢），對你進行脫衣搜身。

They handed you off to the Marshals, who haven't said a word beyond barking at you to keep quiet.

他們把你交給了法警，法警除了叫你保持安靜外，一句話也沒說。

The fact that you're in a van and not on what they call Con Air tells you one thing, you're not going far.

你在麵包車裡，而不是在所謂的 "Con Air "上，這說明了一件事，你不會走遠。

Around six hours later, the van comes to a halt.

大約六小時後，麵包車停了下來。

You can hear the faint crackle of radios and a series of gates opening, as the heavy electronic doors grind open and sunlight pours into the van.

你可以聽到微弱的無線電噼啪聲和一連串的開門聲，隨著沉重的電子門碾壓而開，陽光傾瀉進車內。

You squint against the blinding light, and you can make out four officers waiting on the tarmac, three of them armed with AR-15s and another with a shotgun, and they're all in full body armor.

迎著刺眼的燈光，你眯起眼睛，可以看到四名警官在停機坪上等候，其中三人手持 AR-15，另一人手持霰彈槍，他們都穿著全套防彈衣。

你從未見過如此嚴密的安保措施。

One officer grabs you and leads you like a dog out of the van.

一名警官抓住你，像牽狗一樣把你牽出麵包車。

All around you, and far into the distance, is desert, a vast expanse of dust against a backdrop of mountains.

四周和遠處都是沙漠，一望無際的塵土與群山相映成趣。

There are floodlights standing high above the walls, and razor wire fences glistening in the sunshine.

城牆上高高矗立著泛光燈，鐵絲網在陽光下閃閃發光。

You can see five or six circular guard towers where men are standing with rifles, and they're watching your every move.

你可以看到五六個圓形崗樓，那裡站著手持步槍的人，他們正監視著你的一舉一動。

The lead officer shoves you toward an entrance tunnel covered with sensors and motion cameras.

帶隊軍官把你推向一個佈滿傳感器和移動攝像頭的入口通道。

Inside the building, there are more and more armed officers as you walk through metal detectors.

在大樓內，當你通過金屬探測器時，武裝人員越來越多。

This is nothing like the intake routine of regular prisons.

這與普通監獄的收監程序完全不同。

It is deathly quiet and immaculately clean.

這裡安靜得令人窒息，乾淨得一塵不染。

The people working here are all focused on one thing, you.

在這裡工作的人都專注於一件事，那就是你。

It feels closer to medical quarantine than prison.

比起監獄，這裡更像是醫療隔離區。

It is sterile and dehumanizing, like you're a walking contagion.

它是無菌的，沒有人性的，就像你是一個行走的傳染病。

A door opens into a bare room where there's a counter with a man standing behind it.

一扇門通向一個光禿禿的房間，房間裡有一個櫃檯，櫃檯後面站著一個人。

The armed officers push you toward the wall, and the man behind the counter tells you that you will now be strip-searched.

武裝人員把你推向牆邊，櫃檯後面的人告訴你，現在要對你進行脫衣搜身。

This used to feel humiliating, but the fact is, after almost two years of incarceration, you know the procedure.

這曾經讓人感到羞辱，但事實上，經過近兩年的監禁，你已經知道了程序。

So, you take off your jogging bottoms, your t-shirt, and your underwear, and you're ordered to turn around.

於是，你脫下慢跑褲、T恤衫和內衣，然後被命令轉過身去。

You start to move, but just before your eyes leave the man, you catch a glimpse of him slipping on a pair of rubber gloves.

你開始移動，但就在你的視線離開那個男人之前，你瞥見他正戴著一副橡膠手套。

This is what you might call a rude awakening.

You didn't think cavity searches were even legal anymore for prison inductions.

你以為在監獄裡進行肛腔檢查不合法嗎？

The officer tells you that it's standard procedure here.

警官告訴你，這是這裡的標準程序。

For certain prisoners, a failure to comply may result in disciplinary action.

對於某些囚犯，不遵守規定可能會導致紀律處分。

You have the right to make a complaint to the Bureau of Prisons, but given your history of extreme violence, the prison deems a body cavity search is a reasonable precaution under State Department of Corrections policies.

您有權向監獄管理局投訴，但鑑於您有極端暴力史，監獄認為根據州懲教署的政策，進行體腔搜查是合理的預防措施。

When the search is over, the officer runs his hands through your hair and shines a torch in your ears and mouth, checking the space around your teeth.

搜查結束後，警官用手捋你的頭髮，用手電筒照你的耳朵和嘴巴，檢查你牙齒周圍的空間。

When it's over, they throw you your new prison clothes, an orange jumpsuit with a velcro opening on the chest, and a small one for when you want to pee.

結束後，他們會把新的囚服扔給你，一件橙色的連體服，胸前有一個魔術貼開口，還有一件小的，方便你小便。

Your shoes are wafer-thin, like they're made out of cotton, but with rubber soles.

你的鞋子很薄，像是用棉花做的，但鞋底是橡膠的。

You are immediately sent to another room where there's a bed.

你會立即被送到另一個房間，那裡有一張床。

A male doctor takes your pulse and checks your blood pressure, asking you about previous illnesses or chronic conditions.

男醫生會測量您的脈搏和血壓，詢問您以前的疾病或慢性病情況。

He wants to know if you take medications or have taken them recently.

他想知道您是否服用藥物或最近是否服用過藥物。

No, you say, thinking about that study you read that said 38-42% of inmates in U.S. jails and prisons were taking medications for chronic conditions when they arrived there, almost 30% of them for psychiatric stuff, mostly depression.

不，你說，想到你讀過的那篇研究報告，說美國監獄裡有 38%-42% 的囚犯在到達那裡時正在服用治療慢性病的藥物，其中近 30% 是治療精神病的藥物，主要是抑鬱症。

Two in five U.S. inmates have a mental illness, twice the rate as on the outside.

每五名美國囚犯中就有兩名患有精神疾病，這一比例是監獄外囚犯的兩倍。

You also remember reading that about 50% didn't get the meds in prison that they were taking when they were free.

你還記得有報道說，大約 50% 的人在獄中沒有服用自由時服用的藥物。

Maybe that's one of the reasons why you had so many fights in your last place.

也許這就是你在上一個地方經常打架的原因之一。

Half of those inmates were probably medically, mentally unstable.

這些囚犯中有一半可能在醫學上精神不穩定。

Truth be told, since you got arrested you have gone from mentally stable to mentally wobbly.

說實話，自從你被捕後，你的精神狀態從穩定變得搖擺不定。

But no, you tell the smartly-dressed female psychologist sitting across from you.

但是不行，你要告訴坐在你對面的那位衣著光鮮的女心理學家。

You wouldn't consider yourself depressed or anxious, and no, you've never experienced psychosis.

你不認為自己有抑鬱症或焦慮症，也沒有經歷過精神病。

But if there is one thing you hate, it's isolation.

但如果說你最討厭什麼，那就是與世隔絕。

The shoe drove you crazy in the other place, but you decide not to tell her that because the fact is, it wouldn't matter.

在另一個地方，那隻鞋讓你抓狂，但你決定不告訴她，因為事實是，這並不重要。

You once saw a 2011 study that mentioned 30% of all U.S. inmates will engage in self-injurious behavior at least once while they are locked up, including 50% of women.

你曾經看過一份 2011 年的研究報告，其中提到 30% 的美國囚犯在被關押期間至少會有一次自殘行為，其中包括 50% 的女性。

In a more specific New York study consisting of over 240,000 jail inmates, only 7.3% of the men went to solitary confinement.

在紐約進行的一項更為具體的研究中，在超過 24 萬名監獄囚犯中，只有 7.3% 的人被單獨監禁。

But they made up 53.3% of acts of self-harm and 45% of cases of taking self-harm to the next level.

但在自殘行為中，他們佔 53.3%，在將自殘推向更高層次的案例中，他們佔 45%。

Men in solitary were seven times more likely to hurt themselves than other prisoners.

與其他囚犯相比，被單獨監禁的男子傷害自己的可能性要高出七倍。

The evidence is clear that isolation often causes serious psychological distress, and you are about to experience the most isolated conditions in U.S. prison existence.

有證據表明，與世隔絕往往會造成嚴重的心理壓力，而你們即將經歷的是美國監獄中最與世隔絕的環境。

The purpose of supermaximum security is not to fix, but to break.

最高級別安全的目的不是修復，而是破壞。

This isn't rehabilitation, this is carefully structured degradation.

這不是康復，而是精心安排的退化。

When all the prodding and questioning is over, it's time for the orientation.

當所有的催促和詢問都結束後，就到了迎新時間。

With your handcuffs and your shackles still clinging to your body, the same four armed officers escort you down a bright white hall to a door with a finger and an eye scanner.

手銬和腳鐐仍然緊緊地銬在你的身上，同樣是四名武裝警察押著你走過一個明亮的白色大廳，來到一扇裝有手指和眼睛掃描儀的門前。

It all feels so unnecessary, this level of security.

這一切感覺都是多餘的，這種安全級別。

But then you remember the story of an inmate in a supermax attacking three officers in 2016, leaving them all with life-threatening injuries.

但你又會想起 2016 年發生的故事：一名囚犯在超級監獄中襲擊了三名警官，導致他們全部受傷，生命垂危。

Attacks are rare, but they can certainly happen.

攻擊很少發生，但肯定會發生。

In the office, a man with a shirt and a tie introduces himself as the orientation officer.

在辦公室裡，一位穿著襯衫、打著領帶的男子自我介紹說他是迎新幹事。

He explains that there are various wings in the prison, some more high security than others.

他解釋說，監獄裡有不同的配樓，有些配樓比其他配樓戒備森嚴。

He's letting you know that there are circles of hell, and whatever you might think is bad can get worse.

他讓你知道，地獄也是有輪迴的，你認為糟糕的事情可能會變得更糟。

He says that you'll be going to the general population, which is essentially a high-tech shoe.

他說，你要去找普通人，這基本上就是一雙高科技鞋。

You won't interact with any other prisoners on the unit floor, and you're not supposed to engage in chit-chat with the officers.

在牢房裡，你不會與其他囚犯有任何交流，也不應該與警官閒聊。

If you have a complaint or question, you can request to speak, but other than that, there will be disciplinary action if you open your mouth when told not to.

如果你有投訴或問題，你可以要求發言，但除此之外，如果你在被告知不得開口的情況下開口，將會受到紀律處分。

You will eat in the cell three times a day, collecting the food through a hole in the door.

你們每天要在牢房裡吃三次飯，通過門上的洞收集食物。

You'll shower in the same room, the water being turned on once in the morning each day.

你們將在同一個房間裡洗澡，每天早上開一次水。

You must use it or there will be disciplinary action for neglecting personal hygiene.

您必須使用它，否則會因忽視個人衛生而受到紀律處分。

Dirt will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever.

任何形式的汙垢都是不能容忍的。

Still, you have heard that in some maximum security facilities, the showers are outside of the cells and because of the effort it takes to move the inmates around, they only get two or three showers a week.

不過，你也聽說過，在一些高度設防的監獄裡，淋浴室在牢房外面，由於要花很大力氣把囚犯搬來搬去，他們一週只能洗兩三次澡。

You guess that you have a better deal than those guys.

Visits are not often available, and you must request them a month in advance.

探訪次數不多，您必須提前一個月提出申請。

They can be taken away without warning at any time.

它們隨時都可能在毫無徵兆的情況下被奪走。

它們是一種特權，而不是一種保障。

If you get put in a more secure unit, you get nothing.

如果你被關在一個更安全的組織、部門，你什麼也得不到。

Indeed, if you misbehave, you will be sent to a higher control unit where your privileges are fewer.

事實上，如果你行為不端，就會被送到更高的控制單元，在那裡你的特權會更少。

If you misbehave again, you might be sent to the Special Security Unit, or SSU, where the cells are soundproofed and there is zero interaction with anyone.

如果你再行為不端，你可能會被送進特別安全牢房（SSU），那裡的牢房是隔音的，與任何人都沒有交流。

You will live in total silence, and you'll have to earn the right to receive books, writing equipment, or TV.

你將生活在完全寂靜的環境中，你必須贏得獲得書籍、寫作設備或電視的權利。

But he says if you follow the rules, in maybe a year from now, you could make it to a less secure unit as part of the step-down program.

但他說，如果你遵守規則，也許一年後，你就可以作為降級計劃的一部分，進入安全級別較低的牢房。

This is decided by the multidisciplinary committee that you'll meet with once a month.

這將由您每月與之會面一次的多學科委員會決定。

In the program, you'd occasionally be trusted to mix with other inmates.

在該計劃中，你偶爾會被信任與其他囚犯混在一起。

You'd get yard time with them outside of a cage.

你可以和它們在籠子外的院子裡玩耍。

You'd get access to computers three hours a day outside of your cell and 300 phone minutes a month.

你每天可以在手機之外使用電腦三個小時，每月可以使用 300 分鐘電話。

But one single transgression and you'd be removed from the program.

但只要有一次過失，你就會被除名。

You are dangerous, he says, and will be treated as a threat all the time that you're in this prison.

他說，你是個危險人物，在監獄裡的任何時候都會被視為威脅。

But do as you're told, he says, and you might earn yourself a transfer back to a less secure prison.

但他說，照他說的去做，你就有可能被調回不那麼安全的監獄。

There's no work program, he explains, but you can earn the privilege of cleaning if you prove yourself to be trustworthy.

他解釋說，這裡沒有工作計劃，但如果你證明自己值得信賴，就可以贏得清潔的特權。

There isn't a library, but there will be a selection of books that you can choose from, and these will be prison approved.

這裡沒有圖書館，但會有一些書籍供您選擇，這些書籍都是監獄準許的。

Once you've been over the rules, the armed officers escort you down to another set of seemingly endless bright white corridors leading to a security vestibule.

一旦你過了規則關，武裝人員就會護送你到另一組似乎無窮無盡的明亮白色走廊，通向一個安全前庭。

The officer does the scans and it opens to a large circular area, a kind of white panopticon, with cells spaced around two floors and a small circular officer unit in the middle.

官員進行掃描後，就會打開一個大的圓形區域，這是一種白色的全景式監獄，牢房分佈在兩層樓之間，中間是一個小型的圓形軍官單元。