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An attack on Jan Lewan while he slept in a prison cell has an attorney for the former polka entertainer criticizing Delaware officials responsible for his safety. An inmate cut Lewan, 61, across the neck and on the back with a razor at the Delaware Correctional Center in Smyrna, said attorney David Glassberg of Hazleton. Glassberg identified Lewan's assailant as Keith Garner. According to The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., Garner is serving a life sentence for rape. Glassberg questioned the decision by prison officials to assign Garner to a cell with Lewan, who is serving a sentence for securities...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 24 — Mary Kate Gach thought she had heard the last of Jack Trawick when he was sent to death row for murdering her daughter Stephanie in 1992. Instead, Mr. Trawick's writings about how he beat, strangled and stabbed Stephanie Gach and killed other women are available on the Internet. Many of the writings were put there by a onetime pen pal and admirer of Mr. Trawick's. "Those people don't even have a right to speak my name or my child's name," said Mary Kate Gach. "There's got to be a way to keep them from funneling...

Ruling lets Arizona inmates write to Web sites ACLU argued that ban violated right to free speech 12/18/2002 Associated Press PHOENIX - A federal judge ordered the Department of Corrections to stop enforcing a policy forbidding Arizona inmates from corresponding with, or appearing on, Web sites. U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll granted an injunction request by the American Civil Liberties Union to stop enforcement of the law, which is the subject of a pending lawsuit. "Putting free speech behind bars simply because it concerns prisoners sets a dangerous precedent," said Arizona ACLU attorney David Fathi. "The court's decision makes...