Circular

"Violence begets violence.  It is as old as the Bible.  The violence of the state--brute force, internal colonies from which the poor can rarely escape, and massive incarceration-- is countered with the street violence of the enraged.  These internal colonies funnel the dispossessed into prisons and out again in a circular system that ensures they never escape from the visible and invisible walls that hem them in like sheep.  Brutalized on the street, sometimes brutalized at home and brutalized in prison, they strike out with a self-destructive fury.  Since most lack education and a huge proportion are branded by the state as convicted felons, there is no place for them to go other than where they came from."
--Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco, "Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt", p. 64