the monumental progress that has been made in some of the most traditionally hard-line States in the USA which have proved that you can reduce imprisonment costs, you can rehabilitate offenders and you can reduce crime. Now more than ever is it the time to realise the potential of community sentences and their role in reducing prison numbers.
' Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration '
Boutros Boutros-Ghali( former Secretary-General of the United Nations)
revolutionise. it 9