NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told the audience at the Jefferson Chamber’s Jan. 6 meeting that his administration is going to tackle his top priorities — just as soon as Carnival season is over, that is.
First up, he said, is a legislative session later this month to address crime.
“We have some structural problems with our criminal justice system,” Landry told the crowd of nearly 600 business and political leaders at the Alario Center in Westwego. “We are going to work on things that the legislature can do to help improve the system. The focus will be how to keep people from going to jail, rather than how do we just let people out of jail.”
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