Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants, or CURE, is a United States prisoner support

Prisoner support

Prisoner support encompasses a variety of activities aimed a providing assistance to prisoners, particularly political prisoners. Many programs devoted to this purpose have quite limited resources; for instance, Nottingham Black Prisoner Support, with one staff worker, had 297 active cases in 1999...

 and prison reform

Prison reform

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.-History:Prisons have only been used as the primary punishment for criminal acts in the last couple of centuries...

 organization that was founded by Charles and Pauline Sullivan in San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

. It has supported legislation such as the Second Chance Act

Second Chance Act

Update: H.R. 2065, The Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2011Update: H.R. 1529, The Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2009On March 16, 2009, Congressman Charles B. Rangel [D-NY] sponsored and introduced The Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2009 [HR 1529] which would permit expungement...

and, most famously, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act. CURE has a federal branch devoted to federal prisoners and state chapters. There is also an international CURE. According to Williams, "One of the group's problems is that the population for which they lobby (prisoners) does not elicit much sympathy; outsiders frequently do not see the wisdom of giving resources to those who must be in prison."