Ortiz v. Fort Dodge Correctional Facility.U.S. Appeals Court LANGUAGE Ortiz v. Fort Dodge Correctional Facility The Fort Dodge Correctional Facility is a medium security institution located on 60 acres (243,000 m²) of land near Fort Dodge, Iowa. The institution has 1250 beds, and currently houses about 1,160 inmates. About 372 people are employed by the institution. , 368 F.3d 1024 (8th Cir. 2004). A state prisoner one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense. See also: State sued a prison and a unit manager, challenging a policy that prohibited him from writing letters to family members in Spanish. The district court entered judgment in favor of the prison and the unit manager, and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, holding that the policy was reasonably related to the state's interest in preventing prisoners from using a language officials could not decipher to plan an escape or to smuggle smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. contraband contraband, in international law, goods necessary or useful in the prosecution of war that a belligerent may lawfully seize from a neutral who is attempting to deliver them to the enemy. into the prison. The court noted that the prisoner had other avenues for communicating with his family, and the prisoner had failed to identify cost-free ways that the prison could interpret letters written in Spanish. (Fort Dodge Correctional Facility, Iowa) |
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