Editing Wotansvolk (section)

=== Presence in US prisons ===
Wotansvolk operated a successful prison outreach program.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Research by [[Mattias Gardell]] indicated "a pagan revival among the white prison population, including the conversion of whole [[prison gang]]s to the ancestral religion [...] partly due to the reputation of Lane and its association with the legendary [[The Order (white supremacist group)|Brüders Schweigen]], Wotansvolk's name-recognition is high among the Aryan prison population".<ref name="Gardell217">{{harvp|Gardell|2003|p=217}}</ref> As of January 2001, Wotansvolk catered to more than 5,000 prisoners,<ref name=":4" /> including several members of [[The Order (white supremacist group)|The Order]] like David Lane and Richard Scutari.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/neo-pagans-peter-georgacarakos-david-lane-and-richard-scutari-publishing-prison|title=Neo-Pagans Peter Georgacarakos, David Lane and Richard Scutari Publishing from Prison|access-date=August 17, 2017 |work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=Spring 2000}}</ref> There were fewer than a hundred prison kindreds by the fall of 1996; more than three hundred of them were present by the year 2000. Prison authorities however often break groups by disseminating their members to various establishments. Lane's campaigning has contributed to the fact that all states now allow any prisoner to wear a [[Thor]]'s hammer as a religious medallion.<ref name=":4" />

If there are many white supremacist groups active in prison, the organization seemed according to Gardell "more successful in its outreach efforts than other Asatrú/Odinist programs".<ref name="Gardell217" /> Non-racist versions of Asatrú and Odinism are protected in the US under freedoms of speech and of religion, but violent and racist religious materials, such as Wotanism, may be banned or restricted from prisons.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League Discusses Race-Based Gangs and other Extremists in Prison|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/mark-pitcavage-anti-defamation-league-discusses-race-based-gangs-and-other-extremists|access-date=29 May 2017 |work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=Winter 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Supreme Court Requires Prisons Give Special Consideration to Racist Pagans |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2009/supreme-court-requires-prisons-give-special-consideration-racist-pagans|access-date=29 May 2017|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=Fall 2009}}</ref> While the movement is primarily associated to prison culture in the media, Wotansvolk co-founder Katja Lane asserted in a 1999 interview that prisoners constituted only an estimated 20 percent of Wotansvolkers in the United States.<ref name=":4" />