CURE

NDRAN

Claudia Whitman

Director of NDRAN

is a non-profit chapter of CURE that helps death row prisoners to gain access to legal and community support. NDRAN also assists individual prisoners in their efforts to act as 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. 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. 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 advocates and self-advocates.

* CAPITAL DEFENSE HANDBOOK - a training manual for inmates, family, friends, and community activists – including fundraising, investigation, strategy, reading all legal documents, record keeping, coordinating lawyers/innocence projects/prisoners, etc.

* Capital Defense Seminars - training community and family members to use the Capital Defense Handbook and become proactive in working with a legal team

* Correspondence with prisoners and family members

* Present innocence claims to Innocence Projects Identifying issues that need to be investigated

* Developing investigative strategy

* Maintain a file with case charts and case summaries

NDRAN develops individual and collective solutions by networking nationally & acting locally.

NDRAN Membership Application                                           NDRAN Website

Laird Carlson
Publisher/Webmaster

CELL DOOR MAGAZINE

written mostly by prisoners but also by people who are closely associated with the prison experience. Open the CDM and meet the men and women behind bars. The CDM features art and written material that tell what the incarceration experience is like while in prison and how the ex-con fares once s/he is back in the free world. CDM is an NDRAN publication.                                         CDM Website