We spent a bit of time with Salon's corrections page and discovered this frightening correction from August:
In the Aug. 25 "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" we reported that Joe Loya had stabbed his father with a ballpoint pen, when in fact it was a steak knife. The story also said that he'd bit off the ear of his fellow inmate, when it was just part of his ear; and that he is 44 instead of 43. The story has been corrected.
Run for your lives.