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National Death RowAssistance Network of CUREClaudia Whitman6 Tolman RdPeaks Island, ME 04108888 255-6196 claudia@celldoor.com |
NATIONAL DEATH ROW ASSISTANCE
NETWORK OF CURE
The National Death Row Assistance Network of CURE [NDRAN] is an organization that assists death row prisoners across the United States in gaining access to legal, financial, and community support. It also helps individual prisoner’s efforts in acting as strong self-advocates.
Death row prisoners need legal, financial, and community assistance to counter negative forces marshaled against them. Some are without lawyers or are having problems with lawyers that are representing them. Most need investigative work on their cases and there is rarely funding available for this critical work. Others need local contacts and support groups and contact with the media. Many need their families and friends to have a better understanding of their cases and training/support for family members to facilitate meaningful work on the cases. Some need innocence claims presented to Innocence Projects. Both prisoners and their loved ones need to gain skills in summarizing case issues, identifying tasks, and finding resources so that they can become effective self-advocates and advocates. NDRAN will address these issues and develop individual and collective solutions by networking nationally and acting locally.
NDRAN Activities:
Correspondence with prisoners and family members
Troubleshooting for prisoners and family members - securing a lawyer, financial resources, community support network, etc.
Maintaining and updating files on NDRAN associated death row cases
Networking with family/friends of prisoners
Networking with lawyers of prisoners
Networking with local community resources in state/community of prisoner
Networking with Innocence Projects
Identifying issues that need to be investigated; developing investigative strategy
Training community and family members to do investigative work in cooperation with lawyers
Developing a training manual for family, friends, and community activists that involves fundraising, coordination with lawyers/innocence projects/prisoners, investigation, strategy, reading all legal documents, record keeping, etc.
Working on a model case[s] using all volunteer help
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National Death RowAssistance Network of CUREClaudia Whitman6 Tolman RdPeaks Island, ME 04108888 255-6196 claudia@celldoor.com |
Membership Application
Name:___________________________________
Address:__________________________________
City:______________State:____Zip:_______
Phone:___________ E-Mail:______________
Prisoner Name:_______________________
Type of membership — please check
□ prisoner 5 postage stamps/year
□ basic $10.00/year
□ family $20.00/year
□ sustaining $50.00/year
□ life $100.00
□ Please place me on your mailing list as a non-member. Enclosed is a donation to cover printing and mailing costs.
Send payment to:
NDRAN of CURE
% Claudia Whitman
6 Tolman Rd
Peaks Island, ME 04108
Phone: 888 255-6196 Fax: 240 526-7732
Email: membership@ndran.org
Web Site: NDRAN.org
Please feel free to print this brochure/application to pass along to interested friends or associates.
