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Warts and All  By Ángeles Estrada, M.A., F.C.C.I    The letters written to the judge by Spanish-speaking defendants in U.S. penitentiaries are hard to  read and time consuming to translate.   Because of the literacy level of most defendants, their letters are laden with spelling mistakes  and frequently as cryptic...