United States v. Roderick Lewis

Roderick Lewis pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a prohibited object as an inmate of a prison, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1791(a)(2). The district court 1 sentenced Lewis to sixty months’ imprison ment. Lewis challenges his sentence, and we affirm.

On September 14, 2012, Lewis was an inmate at a federal prison in Forrest City, Arkansas. A correctional officer conducted a random search of Lewis and found in his shoe a five-and-a-half-inch-long piece of plastic, sharpened to a point on one end, commonly described as a “shank.” Lewis pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a prohibited…