CURE-Ohio's Focus

• Encourage a profamily policy in prison assignments, transfers, and pre-release programs.
• Encourage better visiting conditions so that incarcerated persons can maintain a stable family relationship while in prison, thus increasing the chances of success once the person is released.
• Promote improved conditions of confinement and educational opportunities that help prisoners find worth in themselves, as well as become more aware of their relationship and responsibility to society.
• Improve medical and mental health treatment programs and expand drug and alcohol treatment and sex offender treatment in prisons and communities.
• Reform parole guidelines to emphasize fairness and consistency with current sentencing laws.
• Advocate change through the legislative process by creating a national and local constituency made up of families and friends of prisoners who work to educate lawmakers of the need for correctional policy reform.
• Support a moratorium on Ohio's prison building program and promote expanded use of community-based alternatives.
• Support strict regulation of private prisons.
• Encourage victim-offender reconciliation.
• Support a moratorium on the death penalty. Execution is not cost-effective rehabilitation.
• Promote professional prison managment that is fair, firm, and consistent.