This week on HFTF, Ernest Drucker, a scholar in residence and senior research associate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America. Drucker is a long time public health researcher and practitioner, and from 1970 to 1990 he directed a drug addiction treatment and AIDS research program in the South Bronx. Drucker’s new study describes the current “plague” of mass incarceration in the U.S. He locates its origins in the policies at the heart of the “War on Drugs” in the 1970s and then demonstrates how this social crusade has become the self-perpetuating, damaging system we know today. On the show, Drucker also discusses how communities have started to fight back against this system, and he describes alternative approaches for dealing with drugs in modern America. Give it a listen!
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