Arkansas CURE works to promote rehabilitation for the benefit of the community as a whole, and of the incarcerated individual through meaningful criminal justice reform by advocating for meaningful change through the legislative process.
Arkansas CURE is one of many organizations that is networking resources and leveraging ideas into tangible benefits for all.
Facts
CURE is a membership organization.
We work hard to provide our members with the information
and tools necessary to help them understand the criminal justice system and to advocate for changes.
CURE’s Expectations for a Justice system
We believe that:
- No one deserves to be measured only by the worst thing she or he has ever done.
- Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and have his or her human rights preserved.
- Justice systems should be restorative rather than retributive.
- There is no way to create a perfectly safe world. Expecting that of our justice systems leads to
policies that are counterproductive.
- Detention must be justified by a legitimate public safety concern.
- Those who are incarcerated should have all of the resources they need to turn their lives around.
- No one should be incarcerated for his or her immigration status.
- National and international human rights documents provide a sound basis form ensuring that
justice systems meet these goals.
- National and international human rights documents provide a sound basis form ensuring that
justice systems meet these goals.
- The politics of fear should not be allowed to influence sentencing practices or parole policies.
- All efforts should be made to depoliticize justice system offices.
- Drug use should be decriminalized and treated as a public health issue.
- All juvenile cases should be handled in the juvenile system that is geared toward rehabilitation
and education rather than incarceration.
