Supermax prisons exist, according to the policy's driving logic, to address serious disorder problems by isolating people who cause serious disorder. Criticisms of supermax, however, suggest that its use is driven by factors aside from serious disorder problems and that transfers to supermax have a degree of arbitrariness. The current paper uses 10 years of data on one state prison system to disentangle the relationship between “disorder” and supermax utilization by examining (1) the association between a facility's level of serious disorder and supermax transfers (prison-level analysis), (2) the association between a person's level of serious rule breaking and oppositely, “nuisance” behaviors, and the odds of a supermax transfer (individual-level analysis), and (3) whether the influence of a person's behavioral record on the odds of supermax depends upon contextual factors (prison-by-individual interaction). The results suggest that a facility's level of serious disorder does strongly correspond with its reliance on supermax and that indicators of serious rule breaking, and not minor forms of it, are strongly associated with a person's odds of experiencing a supermax transfer. However, a person's misconduct record has a weaker association with the odds of a supermax transfer in facilities that are more disorderly.

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理清严重混乱问题与超级监狱使用之间的关系

根据该政策的驱动逻辑，超级监狱的存在是为了通过隔离造成严重骚乱的人来解决严重的骚乱问题。然而，对超级巨额的批评表明，其使用是由严重疾病问题以外的因素驱动的，并且转移到超级巨额具有一定程度的任意性。本文使用一个州监狱系统 10 年的数据，通过检查 (1) 设施的严重混乱程度与超大转移之间的关联（监狱级别分析），来理清“混乱”与超大利用率之间的关系，(2 ）一个人的严重违规程度和相反的“滋扰”行为与超级顶薪转会的几率之间的关联（个人层面分析），以及（3）一个人的行为记录是否对超级顶薪转会的几率有影响取决于背景因素（监狱与个人的互动）。结果表明，设施的严重混乱程度与其对超级巨额的依赖密切相关，并且严重违反规则的指标（而不是轻微形式的违规）与一个人经历超级巨额转移的几率密切相关。然而，一个人的不当行为记录与在更无序的设施中进行超级转会的可能性的关联性较弱。