Indiana Green Party

1. IGP pursues implementation in Indiana as much as possible of the national GP platform, which supports universal healthcare and a single-payer insurance program that is publicly financed at the national level, administered locally, and privately delivered with freedom of choice of provider.
2. IGP supports increasing access to affordable and low-income housing.
3. IGP recognizes the services provided to the State of Indiana and the United States by non-citizen workers and will seek ways to expand and protect their rights.
4. IGP demands that the USA Patriot Act be repealed.
5. IGP supports restoring full citizenship rights to convicted felons after they have served their sentence.
6. The American Indian Commission in Indiana, composed of Natives, per the recent proposal, should be authorized to deal with tribes on grave repatriation issues.
7. IGP recognizes and calls for full equality of public and private treatment of same-sex marriage.
8. IGP supports passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
9. IGP supports equal opportunity in employment and education and supports affirmative action required to redress past and present inequalities in employment and education.
10. Drug Policy and Prison Reform:
• IGP calls for the decriminalization of drug use and drug addiction.
• IGP supports public funding of, and universal access to, drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs.
• IGP supports increased use of alternative sentencing.
• IGP supports public funding for and increased use of victim-offender reconciliation programs.
• IGP calls for a ban on the use of private prisons.
• IGP calls for an end to the isolation of prisons and prisoners from the rest of society wherever public safety allows.
• IGP calls for community-based prison system that integrates rehabilitation and reconciliation into the life of the community being served by a prison.
• IGP supports improvements in living conditions in prisons.
• IGP supports improved education programs in prisons.
• IGP supports universal in-prison access to drug rehabilitation programs.
• IGP supports substantial expansion in counseling programs in prison in areas such as anger management, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles.
• IGP calls for committing the criminal justice system in general to the goal of rehabilitation, reconciliation, and effective re-integration of former inmates into community life.