ABSTRACT
This chapter is an attempt at locating where and how land, agriculture, and food intersects with a carceral geography. It offers an analysis of the agricultural industrial complex and its shared foundations with the prison industrial complex. This is followed by a consideration of the historical context of the U.S. food system, placing it firmly within a legacy of land theft, land privatization, and human enslavement stretching back to Medieval Europe. The chapter then transitions to a discussion of reparations, rematriation, and the returns of Indigenous lands as possibilities towards healing and transformation on Turtle Island. The chapters final section considers what a relationship of reciprocity with land might bring to the struggle for abolition.
