U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite on Wednesday challenged New Orleans business leaders to hire ex-offenders returning from prison and to play a part in tackling Louisiana's recidivism problem.
"We can't build a jail big enough to get out of this violent crime problem," Polite said in a speech at the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting in the Hyatt Regency downtown. "We can't arrest our way out of this problem."
Polite, recently appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, offered up a proposal for businesses, a program known as "30-2-2.