ISKCON has a global prison ministry aimed at helping people in prisons around the world, providing opportunities and guidance for inmates to practice Krishna consciousness. Devotees worldwide write to inmates, visit prisons, and donate books to prison libraries. At Radhadesh, Rupa Manjari has been involved in this important work.

In 1962 Srila Prabhupada wrote as one of the goals in the prospectus for his League of Devotees (the precursor to ISKCON): “To take charge of moral upliftment by spiritual process even for the criminals and prisoners of state, and to accept all kinds of help and facilities from the police and government concerned.”