Incarceration for debt and disobeying new legal norms has been a common tool for capitalists all over the globe. This paper explores the idea of incarceration -- imprisonment as a mode of correcting laboring bodies -- and disciplining capitalism more broadly. While new scholarly literature on capitalism in the Middle East and North Africa lines the pages of recent academic publishing pamphlets, the relationship between the embodiment of labor, incarceration, and changing capitalist practices in the region is still largely absent. This paper argues specifically that the tools and experiences of incarceration were both a product and a cause of changing regional capitalist practices connected to shifting global economic orders. This contribution to the panel on bodies focuses on the most fertile regions of Palestine prior to World War I. Drawing on police records, private company archives, memoirs, and petitions, it argues for incarceration as integral to capitalism in early-20th century Palestine. New corrective institutions and the corresponding growing science of correction was indeed part and parcel of the process of dehumanizing, devaluing, and demoralizing laboring bodies for their exploitation in the service of capital accumulation. My paper begins with the lead up to the global banking crisis of 1907 and the subsequent Young Turk Revolution. These related events on the heels of constitutional and economic shifts in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire brought about significant political and legal changes in Ottoman Palestine. Laws began to strongly favor large landholding capitalists whose continuous accumulation of capital depended on the objectification of laboring bodies and related ongoing primitive accumulation, what David Harvey calls “accumulation by dispossession” for another era. In fertile regions around Nazareth and other regions where land was valuable and disputes were common, capitalists insisted on incarcerating peasants for various infractions that were inconvenient to accumulation. Working closely with law enforcement and political leaders with financial stakes in outcomes of land disputes, capitalists imprisoned peasants without charge, called upon debts before the ends of contracts, employed trespassing charges for usufruct holders, and used vague record-keeping rules to accuse peasants of producing forgeries. These facts reveal not only the imprint of capitalist practices where scholars have argued for their absence. But, they also echo what historians have found in other geographical contexts in the global north and south: capitalism (and by extension, class) and the politics of incarceration are inextricably linked.