From Harriet: As the newest editor of the newsletter mailed each month to 753 inmates in the Freedom Inside course, I am struck in awe at some of the responses that we get back. My heart bursts in gratitude to read a letter like the one above that we received in February. It is the incredible gift that all of us can receive as we open the mail from our community behind bars, and share it here with you.

Creating the newsletters is truly a labor of love, working with Gangaji in the editing process, coming up with the themes and topics of inquiry. It’s an honor for me to take this over from Shanti, who has managed it so beautifully for the last seven years.

We began this year with the first issue in a new series on the theme, The Heart Can Bear it All, from Self-hatred to True Love. Part 2 is about to go to the printers.

Now, for the first time, if you are a member of the Gangaji library, you will be able to access back issues of Freedom Inside in the Media Library.

The Edovo digital platform allows inmates to access Gangaji's courses, videos, and audios on prison-issued tablets. Here is one report on the impact that is having:

Some Edovo Updates:

• Since 2024, we have created 8 unique courses (including 2 in Spanish) and uploaded many stand-alone video and audio resources.
• Our courses have been checked out over 49,000 times in 1,323 facilities. Truly amazing!

As we look ahead this year, we are planning to add new themed courses on Self-hatred and Finding Home (Gangaji’s life story as an interactive course), and a new addition: eBooks.

If you are someone who could help with translating further courses into Spanish, please email us.

The correspondence program pairs inmates enrolled in Freedom Inside with a volunteer on the outside for letter writing and deep spiritual inquiry together.

• We currently have 59 inmates paired with a correspondent.
• Correspondents come from 11 Countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ecuador, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, US.

If you feel called to become a volunteer corresponder please fill out our volunteer form, and Diana Button (right) will contact you with more information.

Here is just a small part of a letter sent to one of our volunteers.

Alicia, Heidi, Abby, and Sutra are our volunteer admin team, opening the mail in the office, managing the upkeep of our ever-expanding database, sending out packages, and processing the correspondence letters. We respond to more than 80 letters a month, about 40% of which are correspondence.