Prison visitation transportation services perform an important yet understudied role in the process of prison visitation for many people with incarcerated loved ones. This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of the experiences of loved ones of incarcerated people using a small, Black-owned prison visitation transportation service. Prison visitation transportation services help to mitigate the carceral state’s inherent function to separate people from their incarcerated loved ones, but in turn these services are also subjected to intensive forms of carceral control themselves. As a result, prison visitation transportation services and their staff experience a form of tertiary prisonization. This ultimately results in the drivers of these services experiencing a heightened and enduring state of layered liminality, which becomes attached to them as individuals.

监狱探视运输服务在许多与被监禁亲人的监狱探视过程中发挥着重要但未被充分研究的作用。本文借鉴了一项人种学研究的结果，该研究对使用黑人拥有的小型监狱探视运输服务的被监禁者的亲人的经历进行了研究。监狱探视运输服务有助于减轻监狱国家将人们与被监禁的亲人分开的固有功能，但反过来，这些服务本身也受到密集形式的监狱控制。结果，监狱探视运输服务及其工作人员经历了一种三级监狱. 这最终导致这些服务的驱动程序经历了一种高度和持久的分层阈值状态，这种状态与他们作为个体联系在一起。