How to Mail Letters to a Fort Dodge Inmate: Use the Pigeonly Las Vegas Address and Facility Code 1114

Iowa DOC routes all incoming non-legal mail for Fort Dodge through Pigeonly, a central mail processing facility. This helps reduce contraband - your original envelope never goes directly to the prison. Instead, the processor handles your letter first, then sends a copy to the right facility. The bottom line: if it's not legal mail, address it to the Las Vegas processing center, not Fort Dodge.

Send all non-legal mail for Fort Dodge inmates to Iowa DOC's central processor at: PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. Use this Las Vegas address on your envelope. Your letter gets processed there first, then forwarded to Fort Dodge.

• ✓ Incarcerated Individual Name – Offender ID Number
• ✓ Facility Name – Facility ID Number (Fort Dodge Correctional Facility – 1114)
• ✓ PO Box 96777
• ✓ Las Vegas, NV 89193

When your letter arrives at the central processor, Pigeonly opens it and scans the contents into a digital color copy. That copy gets printed and delivered to Fort Dodge. Your loved one receives the printed version - not the original paper you mailed.

Want to send photos? Iowa DOC allows them through an approved provider called Pelipost. You can send 4x6 or 5x7 prints, up to 10 photos per order.

Common Mistakes

• ✓ Mailing non-legal letters straight to Fort Dodge (or any Iowa DOC facility) instead of the Las Vegas processing address - it will be returned to you.
• ✓ Leaving off the incarcerated person’s Offender ID number - the processor needs it to match the mail to the right person.
• ✓ Forgetting Fort Dodge’s facility code (1114) - missing or incorrect facility info can delay delivery or cause misrouting.