The mission of IPM is to spread Lord Caitanya’s mercy to the fallen souls of Kali-yuga who find themselves within a prison of the prison house of the material world.
IPM promotes Srila Prabhupada’s understanding that the only cure for society’s ills, both for individual person and as a whole, is the process of bhakti-yoga. By reading Srila Prabhupada’s books, following the four regulations, abstinence from meat-eating, gambling, intoxication, and illicit sex, and by chanting the maha mantra, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, even a criminal can become a perfect citizen.
“The means which I have adopted is spiritual and it works quicker than any material means. If you give me chance to speak to all the members in jail, it is quite possible for me to turn them into ideal characters.” Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Sri Puri, 1962
“Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries.” Bhagavad-gita 4.36
ISKCON Prison Ministry
PO Box 2676 Alachua, FL
32616-2676