Ex-Arkansas senator, inmates send letter offering to help build border wall

Former Arkansas Sen. Jon Woods has shared a letter from federal prison addressed to President Donald Trump, offering prison labor to build a Mexican border wall in exchange for credit toward inmates' sentences.

"Prisoners are a willing and untapped work force," says the Nov. 8 letter, faxed to Northwest Arkansas TV station KNWA-TV and made public Tuesday. "Mobile housing or [Federal Emergency Management Agency] trailers would be adequate living conditions for us at this work site."

"We would also ask that a form of sentence credit be considered for our work if called into action," the letter says.

KARK-TV and KLRT-TV news director Austin Kellerman of Little Rock wrote an article about the letter Tuesday that appeared on the fox16.com website.

Read more: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/nov/14/woods-inmates-would-build-wall-20181114-1/