Here's a report on an prison assault on John Walker Lindh, who is serving his 20-year sentence at the federal correctional facility in Victorville, California. Lindh was not seriously injured. Authorities are investigating whether the attack was the work of a white-supremacist prison gang. I have no problem with Lindh serving a prison term, particularly one he agreed to. But I wonder how much more death and destruction was caused by Lindh's "patriotic," Confederate flag-waving fellow inmates here in the homeland than was caused by Lindh himself.

Talk Left also reports on an upcoming New Yorker piece (not online) on Lindh and his plea bargain.

(Story referred by Mac Diva.)