The National Capital Crime Assistance Network’s mission is to help capital defendants, which include death row prisoners and people facing Life Without Parole charges to gain access to legal and community support and to act as skilled self-advocates. NCCAN specifically works to prevent wrongful convictions and to help free the wrongfully convicted. 

NCCAN is the trade name (DBA) of the National Death Row Assistance Network (NDRAN) of CURE. NDRAN is the official death penalty chapter of Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE), an international membership organization of prisoners, family members of prisoners, former prisoners, and other concerned citizens.    

NDRAN of CURE is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation and was founded in 2000 by Claudia Whitman, a human rights activist, and investigator