Listed below are web page links to various sites you may find of use. Domain names, web addresses, and web sites are always changing. If you find any broken links here or know of a site that you would like to submit to our links page, please contact our webmaster, webmaster@coloradocure.org.

DISCLAIMER: The Colorado-CURE web site provides links to other web sites that we believe may be of help to you or contain important information and resources relevant to CURE's mission. Colorado-CURE has no control over content of any sites we provide links to from coloradocure.org. We do not endorse or sponsor any of the sites. These links are provided only as a service to our members and web site visitors.

American Correctional Association - The American Correctional Association is a multi-disciplinary organization of professionals representing all facets of corrections & criminal justice, including federal, state, and military correctional facilities and prisons, county jails and detention centers, probation/parole agencies, and community corrections/halfway houses.

Ackerman Information Corporation - We, at Ackerman Information Corporation, are committed to providing full representation and service in the governmental affairs arena. Such representation and service is not limited to direct advocacy before the Colorado General Assembly, but also includes monitoring the operations of other entities of state government that impact the client, planning and strategy services, provision of significant information, and reporting of all developments that affect the client's interests.

ACLU of Colorado - ACLU Supports Colorado-CURE and provides space for our monthly meetings. Committed to protecting, defending, and extending civil liberties in Colorado. ACLU of Colorado's mission is to protect and extend the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all Coloradans through litigation, education, and advocacy.

Celldoor - An INTERNET MAGAZINE written for a free audience by prisoners or people who are family members or friends of prisoners. Open the cell door and meet the men and women behind bars. The Cell Door Magazine features articles that tell what the incarceration experience is like while in prison and how the ex-con fairs once s/he is back on the street. Topics include but are not limited to prison issues.

COLORADO - Everything you need to know or link to in Colorado state goverment.

Colorado Criminal Defense Bar - The Colorado Criminal Defense Bar has assisted CO-CURE and its members on many occasions. The Colorado Criminal Defense Bar is the only statewide organization devoted solely to the representation of persons accused of having committed crimes. Our membership list consists of about 500 attorneys in Colorado.

Colorado Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice - The mission of the commission is to enhance public safety, to ensure justice, and to ensure protection of the rights of victims through the cost-effective use of public resources. The work of the commission will focus on evidence-based recidivism reduction initiatives and the cost-effective expenditure of limited criminal justice funds. 

The Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice meets the second Friday of every month from 1-5PM at the National Enforcement Training Institute (NETI) located at 12345 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO.

Colorado General Assembly - Keep in touch with what your elected representatives are doing in the state capital. Site includes links to both legislative houses, complete legislative member listing including contact information, complete Colorado Revised Statutes listing, bills, house and senate calendar, session information, and many other legislative resources.

The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition - is an educational, legislative, and organizational endorsement campaign which seeks stop further prison construction in Colorado and to advocate for the development of alternative sentencing, prevention, and treatment options

Colorado Department of Corrections

Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice - The Forum is lead by a Leadership Council and is partially funded by a grant provided by the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice. The Colorado Forum on Community and Restorative Justice exists to facilitate understanding and implementation of restorative and community justice with the communities of Colorado.

Colorado Progressive Coalition - Colorado-CURE is a memeber organization of CPC. CPC is one of Colorado's leading voices for civil rights, racial justice, public school accountability, and high quality, affordable health care for all.

Death Penalty Information Center - As long as there is a death penalty, the possibility exists that innocent Americans will be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. Condemned to die in 1987, Greg Wilhoit spent six years on death row for a crime he did not commit.

DEMOS - Demos is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research and advocacy organization based in New York City. We are committed to a long-term effort to reframe and redesign policy and politics to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century. We seek to bring everyone into the life of American democracy and to achieve a broadly shared prosperity characterized by greater opportunity and less disparity.

City of Denver - Everything you need to know or link to in Denver city goverment.

eTc Campaign - The campaign to promote equitable phone charges. Designed to address the injustice of the nation's prison systems' telephone practices. The eTc Campaign has been organized by CURE (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants).

Federal-CURE - On behalf of the Board of Directors, we would like to extend an invitation to each of you to join us in our efforts to reform the federal prison system. Federal CURE, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that deals solely with the issues faced by federal inmates and their loved ones. We are working to promote a system that incarcerates fewer people and provides humane conditions for those who are incarcerated or under post-incarceration supervision via parole or supervised release.

For Whom The Bells Tolls - They toll for each person executed, state sanctioned murder diminish us all! Many people are familiar with the phrase "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and the answer, "It tolls for thee." In the case of this campaign, the bells do toll for thee and for every person who is executed in this country. For Whom the Bells Toll is a national initiative to have religious organizations throughout the country toll their bells whenever there is an execution.

International Community Corrections Association- The International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), formerly the International Halfway House Association, was founded in 1964. The purpose of the association is to assist members to function more effectively through the exchange of information.

MotherJones.com - Debt to Society- The Real Price of Prisons There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before. Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans.

Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation - Most criticism of the death penalty focuses on how it affects the person on death row. Our concern is how the death penalty affects the rest of us in society. Our opposition to the death penalty is rooted in our direct experience of loss and our refusal to respond to that loss with a quest for more killing. Executions are not what will help us heal.

National Coalition Against the Death Penalty - NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

National CURE - The people who started it all. National CURE information, links to other CURE sites, links to other criminal justice reform sites, discussion on current national legislative issues, position papers, and other important CURE information.

PrisonTalkOnline - Breaking the prison system communication barriers.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project - works to strengthen and deepen the organizing capacity of people and communities struggling to end mass incarceration. Resources include a website with useful up-to-date research, books, links to hundreds of organizations, PDF’s of  RCPP created materials including three comic books (“Prison Town---Paying the Price”, “Prisoners of a Hard Life---Women and Their Children” and “Prisoners of the War on Drugs) and the newest sections “Comix from Inside” and “Writing from Prison.” 

Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center - Created in the spirit of unconditional nonviolence, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center is dedicated to research, education, and action in nonviolence as a way of life and as a means for personal and social change. Founded in 1983, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center has been a successful agent for social change for over fifteen years.

Stop Capital Punishment Now! - This site is dedicated to a Campaign to support the Nomination of Governor George H. Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize. Governor George H. Ryan of Illinois - home of Abraham Lincoln - has shown Lincoln like resolve and leadership in his declaration of a moratorium on Capital Punishment in his state, and in his campaign to fix the many and grievous flaws in the Death Penalty process. The people supporting this campaign to have him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, anticipate and look forward to his commutation of the sentences of all those currently on Death Row in Illinois prisons.

The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation - A criminal justice system that is honest, fair and effective is one of America's most important institutions. The character of our national life depends upon our safety and our liberty which depend upon the integrity and effectiveness of our justice system. Unfortunately criminal justice -- so central to the maintenance of our civilized way of life -- does not get the level of philanthropic support that is provided to hospitals, universities, or the arts.

The November Coalition - Sentencing and prison reform site recommended by a Colorado-CURE member. Good resources about the current national war on drugs and the collateral effects it has had on prison population and families of prisoners.

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet - Excellent internet portal to many sources for federal legislative issues, news and events. It's all here in one place. Keep up to date with what your elected representatives are doing in Washington D.C.