Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Krishna Prison Ministry would like to announce a first in Vaishnava history: the Oregon state prison is broadcasting Srila Prabhupada's lectures twice a week to each and every cell in the institution. The prison has each cell wired with radio, allowing the inmates to plug headphones into the wall jacks and hear.

Jivanada dasa, an inmate there, has started broadcasting Srila Prabhupada's lectures twice a week, so every man has the opportunity to start his journey back home, back to Godhead. As far as we know, this is the first time in history that a Vaishnava acarya has been in every cell in a prison preaching Krsna consciousness. We are ecstatic. Hare Krsna!

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have donated books, stamps, money, tapes, and CDs, especially Bhaktivedanta Archives and Kamlesh Patel. We would also like to thank those who have written to inmates, giving them much needed devotee association.

If you would like to help or contribute to spreading Krsna consciousness to these most fallen souls, incarcerated in our world's prisons, please contact us at

Krishna Prison Ministries
5437 Meadow Rue Trail
Knoxville TN 37918
c/o Bhakta Chris Matthews

or e-mail us at matthews97@aol.com

We hope that with continued support from the Vaishnava community we will have Srila Prabhupada's books available to all inmates by 2005. This means making the books available in prison libraries and to individual inmates. We also would like to see devotees going regularly into the prisons and county jails for Bhagavatam classes, kirtan, and prasadam by this date.

There are many souls who are contacting us and Chandrashekhara of the main ISKCON Prison Ministries every day. They need all of our love, association, and support.

Once again, thank you to everyone who has helped make this dream a reality.

Hare Krsna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Ki jai!

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