Wotansvolk operated a quite successful prison outreach program.[1][2] Research by Mattias Gardell indicated "a pagan revival among the white prison population, including the conversion of whole prison gangs to the ancestral religion [...] partly due to the reputation of Lane and its association with the legendary Brüders Schweigen, Wotansvolk's name-recognition is high among the Aryan prison population".[6] As of January 2001, Wotansvolk catered to more than 5,000 prisoners,[4] including several members of The Order like David Lane and Richard Scutari.[7] 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.