Where community rehabilitation ‘is harder than a short-term jail sentence’

In a Manchester scheme, those convicted of car crimes and given intensive community orders are brought face to face with the consequencesA group of offenders on a community rehabilitation programme have been shown the reality of car-related crime by firefighters from Greater Manchester fire service.Eight offenders recently spent a day at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service training centre where they took part in a simulated exercise to pull a passenger free from a mangled car after a seri