Cover art for Plague of Prisons
Published
New Press, August 2011
ISBN
9781595584977
Format
Hardcover, 228 pages
Dimensions
21.5cm × 14.5cm × 2.1cm

Plague of Prisons The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America by

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When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that the current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic, a plague upon our body politic.

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