ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the respective oppressions and exploitations and their accompanying carceral logics, taking inspiration from scholars who have studied the similarities in accumulation strategies, commodifications of life, and devaluations of labor across human prisoner and numerous nonhuman group. It also focuses on the labor of people ensnared within US carceral institutions, historically and to the present, and nonhumans laboring within various spaces of captivity. The chapter examines what their positioning in US labor and economic relations can tell about industrial violence, their lives being made into property and commodity, and the legal, political, and economic contexts that make this possible. Prisons, military zones, and other sites of law enforcement and policing are but one type of governmental, industrial, or cultural site where captive animals perform labor for human benefit. T. V. S. McKee posits an example of prisoners and ex-racehorses and their respective potential as 'redemptive capital'.
