Demetrius Buckley’s long-awaited transfer to a lower-security prison means more time outside of his cell and a chance to see his daughter. But the transport process was like everything else in prison: slow, confusing and casually cruel.

Highlights of prisoner travel include gang fights, overflowing toilets and two weeks shackled to a neo-Nazi.

When a trip to the hospital means spending hours on a cramped bus handcuffed to another prisoner.