@article{434885,
      recid = {434885},
      author = {Drucker, Ernest.},
      title = {A plague of prisons the epidemiology of mass incarceration  in America / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {New Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 226 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {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 public  health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked  epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the  intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker  makes the case that our current unprecedented level of  imprisonment has become an epidemic--a plague upon our body  politic. Drucker, an internationally recognized public  health scholar and Soros Justice Fellow, spent twenty years  treating drug addiction...},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434885},
}