Articles by Ian Head

Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by Jonathan Simon (Oxford University Press 2007), 344 pages

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2010 by Ian Head published in Prison Legal News October, 2010, page 32

Filed under: Reviews, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Victims, Excessive Force (Police). Location: United States of America.

Review by Ian Head

This past spring, a 12-year-old student in Queens, New York was arrested, handcuffed and taken to a local precinct for doodling on her desk during class. Paraded out of the building in tears by police, this was just the latest in a string of horrific incidents ...

Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, by Matt Meyer

Loaded on April 15, 2009 by Ian Head published in Prison Legal News April, 2009, page 26

Filed under: Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Reviews. Location: United States of America.

Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, by Matt Meyer

Book Review by Ian Head

In October, 2008, activist and (disbarred) attorney Lynne Stewart, who writes the afterword in Let Freedom Ring, spoke at the National Lawyers Guild’s annual convention in Detroit, ...