Circular incarceration

"Circular Logic'' (steel and concrete), by Isabel Mattia, at Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, Mass.  She references the "circular logic embedded in the design of our prison systems. They rely, she says, paraphrasing left-wing activist Angela Davis, on "the perception that certain people are inherently criminalized, and are self-perpetuating due to financial incentives to keep these people incarcerated.''