Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) About the Journal for Critical Animal Studies The of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is to promote, encourage, support and enable the publication of research and writing that develops the dynamic field of critical animal studies. To do this more effectively the Journal actively seeks new ways of making itself ever more accessible, relevant and influential across a diverse range of academic, activist, policy making, and public communities. JCAS seeks to breakdown and mediate oppositions between theory and practice, college and community, and scholarship and citizenship, in order to make philosophy (in a broad sense) again a force of change and to repatriate intellectuals to the public realm. By “critical” we mean that animal studies must not become a safe and sanitized discourse; it must use its unique and powerful perspective to advance a radical, and oppositional discourse that engages and politicizes the many profound theoretical, environmental, and political issues embedded in animal studies. JCAS seeks a critique of hierarchy as a multifaceted and systemic phenomenon (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, and speciesism) and their intricate interrelationships. We believe the fissures and cracks in the emerging paradigm of animal studies create openings for radical interventions the challenges to humanist histories and the debilitating dualism between human animal and nonhuman animal. JCAS seeks to illuminate these problems and pose solutions through vivid, concrete, and accessible language. The JCAS is ten years old, peer-reviewed, and the original founding journal of the field of critical animal studies. The review board, and articles published, are both international in scope and include contributions from many of the scholars at fore-front of the field of critical animal studies. The Institute for Critical Animal Studies, with which the Journal is affiliated, currently sponsors conferences in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain as well as editing two book series. We welcome contributions from any discipline. History of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies The Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal founded in 2003 by Steve Best and Anthony J. Nocella II changed its name in 2007 to the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS), a project of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) (formally known as the Center for Animal Liberation Affairs). JCAS was renamed by Steve Best, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Richard Kahn, which at that time until 2009 was led by Best. The Journal was established for the purpose of fostering academic study of critical animal issues in contemporary society. JCAS is grounded in an opposition to animal studies and research, which exploits nonhuman animals. The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is an interdisciplinary and intersection journal with an emphasis on total liberation and freedom for all. This Journal was designed to build up the common activist’s knowledge of animal liberation while at the same time appealing to academic specialists to address the important topic of animal liberation, freedom, and advocacy. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints of contributors from the frontlines of activism to academics. We have created the Journal for the purpose of facilitating communication between the many diverse perspectives of the animal advocacy movement. Thus, we especially encourage submissions that seek to create new syntheses between differing disputing parties and to explore paradigms not currently examined. The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is open to all scholars and activists. While the research and perspectives will differ, the editing of the pieces will be peer-reviewed for quality and originality. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints and topics. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) Suggested Topics The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is open to all scholars and activists. The journal was established for the purpose of fostering academic study of critical animal issues in contemporary society. Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is a challenge to Animal Studies (AS) science and research based field of study, which stresses vivisection, dissection, and behavior control and welfare politics of animals. Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is the academic field of study dedicated to the abolition of animal and ecological exploitation, oppression, and domination. CAS is grounded in a broad global emancipatory inclusionary movement for total liberation and freedom. JCAS is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on animal and total liberation philosophy and policy issues. This journal was designed to build up the common activist’s knowledge of animal liberation while at the same time appealing to academic specialists to address the important topic of animal liberation. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints of contributors from the frontlines of activism to academics. We have created the journal for the purpose of facilitating communication between the many diverse perspectives of the animal rights movement. Thus, we especially encourage submissions that seek to create new syntheses between differing disputing parties and to explore paradigms not currently examined. ___________________________________ The key objectives of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies are to: Promote wider understanding of, and engagement with critical animal studies. Be relevant to diverse academic, activist and wider public communities Encourage and inform political and academic debate around critical animal studies. Publish innovative work on critical animal studies ___________________________________ **We especially encourage contributions that engage animal liberation in disciplines and debates that have received little previous attention. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) Journal for Critical Animal Studies Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 Special Issue: Prison and Animals Guest Editors: Susan Thomas and Laura Shields TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Prison Studies and Critical Animal Studies: Understanding Interconnectedness beyond Institutional Comparisons Susan Thomas Laura Shields Pg. 4-11 Essays Doing Time in Slaughterhouses: A Green Criminological Commentary on Slaughterhouse Work Programs for Prison Inmates Amy J. Fitzgerald Pg. 12-46 Beyond Dehumanization: A Post-Humanist Critique of Intensive Confinement Lisa Guenther Pg. 47-68 “Man’s” Best Friend: Why Human Rights Needs Animal Rights Vasile Stanescu Pg. 69-100 Towards a Posthuman Postcolonial Critical Criminology of Incarceration Mielle Chandler Pg. 101-113 Killing Time on the Prairie Alan Mobley Pg. 114-118 Social Movement Analysis Animal Advocates for Prison and Slave Abolition: A Transformative Justice Approach to Movement Politics for an End to Racism Anthony J. Nocella II Pg. 119-126 Interviews “What Is Good for All of Us, Is the Only True Good for Any of Us”: An Interview with Marie Mason Matthew Ross Calarco Pg. 127-139 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) EDITORIAL Prison Studies and Critical Animal Studies: Understanding Interconnectedness beyond Institutional Comparisons Dr. Susan Thomas and Laura Shields The timing of this issue is not random. In our call for papers we wrote that we are at a critical moment in history with mass incarceration and mass exploitation of nonhuman animals. The connection between animal studies and incarceration discourses has never been more intimately associated. The “Prison and Animals” issue developed out of noticing the eerily similar trajectories of the prison industrial complex and factory farms. Both institutions developed rapidly, sprouting up in rural areas and proponents for both heralded them as job-providers for impoverished communities. Both institutions serve as transformative spaces that encourage physical displacement, limit mobility and create exiled individuals. Both institutions forge identities, shape relationships and take lives. Obviously, glaring differences exist between these institutions as well. State-sanctioned killings are capital punishment in one arena and “processing” in another. The submitters of this issue introduce concepts and speak in terms that get beyond the simply descriptive in order to chart the ideological terrains that give rise to institutions that police, control and oppress specific bodies for profit. Perhaps seemingly disparate fields, prison studies and critical animal studies intersect within the political realm of academic concern regarding human and animal‟s lived experiences.“The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?” The quote made famous by philosopher Jeremy Bentham continues to resonate with animal rights activists concerned about the individual lives of nonhuman animals. Yet not only was Bentham an advocate for animals, he was one of the earliest scholars to straddle the [barbed wire] fence so- to-speak of prison studies and animal studies. His panopticon prison design served as a symbol for Michel Foucault to explain the authoritative power of assumed constant surveillance. Like critical animal studies, prison studies encompasses a range of methodological and disciplinary approaches to understanding prison history and culture. From history to sociology to 4 Journal for Critical Animal