URGENT: Write a Letter NOW to Free Innocent Prison Inmate!

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Please get your letter to the California Parole Board by April 2 if not sooner

By Mark Anderson

The harrowing plight of California prison inmate P.F. Lazor, whose proper release year was 30 years ago in 1992, needs to be brought to an end. So, he needs your help—NOW. His entire experience is unlike anything that this writer has ever seen or heard of in 35-plus years in journalism; he is a lot like the character “Winston” in Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” in that his captors torment him for the sake of maintaining absolute control. Lazor’s innate intelligence and leadership qualities, his pursuit of the truth at all costs, and his determination to see to it that the state of California follows its own prison rules and regulations, have been a thorn in the side of petty, vindictive people in the “state within a state” that is the California prison system, or Golden State Gulag.

URGENT NOTE — There is an April 2 deadline for the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) of California to receive letters from concerned citizens anywhere in the country to strongly urge the board to grant parole to Lazor and release him. In 1983, in a sham trial that tortures the very meaning of the word “trial,” Lazor was convicted on a totally bogus “second-degree murder” charge that was actually an exercise of his Second Amendment right to self-defense against a deranged individual who forcibly entered Lazor’s premises and attacked him with a meat cleaver. Lazor is now 67 years old and is languishing in the Salinas Valley State Prison at Soledad. Any aspirations he had to start a family have been totally shattered. Worse still, a possible or even probable covid-vaccine mandate for prisoners, if it moves past a temporary “stay” in the courts, likely would kill Lazor because he has always had serious personal chemical sensitivities. Therefore, he is in a race against time.

For the full story on Lazor, see the accompanying free PDF of an entire edition of American Free Press; when you open the PDF, go to Page 21 in the document. And keep this free AFP edition as a small token toward your letter-writing help in this matter. That article also contains the address to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to the California prison system. Feel free to send a copy of your letter to the Parole Board to the OIG as well, or send a separate letter to the OIG if you so choose. It’d be best to include a short cover letter if you share your letter to the BPH with the OIG. In that cover letter, put something like this:

Consider this a complaint against the Board of Parole Hearing’s flagrant abuse of Lazor’s rights and the fact that the BPH has chronically flouted key provisions of the California Penal Code. The BPH, as part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, falls under the OIG’s jurisdiction. It’s high time to reign in BPH abuses.

IMPORTANT BPH GUIDELINES: See my sample letter below that was mailed to the Board of Parole Hearings on Wed., March 23. Don’t copy it exactly, of course, but feel free to quote and paraphrase some of it in a letter of your own words. Handwritten legibly or printed is fine. And keep your letter brief and to the point. You need not proclaim his “innocence,” but instead cite the ways that he was denied proper procedures by a parole board that did not even obey the state’s own penal code.

IN ADDITION TO THE PDF OF AFP, THERE IS ONE ATTACHMENT WITH THIS ARTICLE FROM AN EXPLANATORY LETTER FROM LAZOR. THIS ATTACHMENT DESCRIBES THE EXACT WAY TO APPROACH THIS MATTER.

THE MAIN THING IS TO WRITE THE BOLD UNDERLINED HEADING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LETTER, IN THE EXACT MANNER THAN I DID BELOW.

ON THAT NOTE, HERE BELOW IS MY EXAMPLE LETTER; LETS DO THIS; LET’S FREE LAZOR!!

Attn. Decision Review Unit, c/o Heather McCray

P.O. Box 4036

BOARD OF PAROLE HEARINGS

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95812-4036

FOR THE DECISION REVIEW UNIT AND EN BANC PANEL OF APRIL 8, 2022 DEADLINE.

RE: PRISONER P.F. “FREE” LAZOR C-73842 (CHALLENGE OF PAROLE HEARING OF 1-12-2022)

I am writing to earnestly request that you release P.F. Lazor from prison—because his hearing rights were apparently violated in several ways by the Board of Parole Hearings.

An especially important consideration is that California Penal Code section 5011 says that a prisoner (in this case, Lazor) cannot be denied parole for his refusal to admit guilt to the crime in question, yet I understand that the BPH on Jan. 12, 2022 did indeed deny his parole partly for that reason.

It’s all about the state following the law just as it expects prisoners and those in general society to do.

Thus, also consider Penal Code section 3041 (a) & (b). That section means that parole may be denied ONLY if the crime that landed the person into prison in the first place is especially heinous and the inmate has a crime record that clearly and unambiguously shows that he or she constitutes a genuine and serious danger to society at-large.

Also, Lazor has a right to “individualized consideration” as mandated by the courts. Lazor’s case factors are quite unusual, and are in fact unique, yet it was only through the violation of “individualized consideration” that his parole was denied on Jan. 12, 2022.

Lazor also went to the Jan. 12 hearing with past assurances that parole would be granted so long as he fulfilled specific criteria, which I have every reason to believe he did (including not having rules violations), yet such assurances were ignored by the Jan. 12 panel. It’s also come to my attention that Lazor was supposed to have at least one commissioner present on that date who took part in Lazor’s previous parole hearing, but that didn’t happen—nor was Lazor allowed to ask relevant questions of the panel and get answers, even though he has the right to do so.

Furthermore, it appears the panel created a “silent record” of the hearing, thereby negating Lazor’s right to a complete and accurate record of said hearing.

I could go on. But Lazor has more than served his time. We’re a free country and proud of it. Let’s set a good example and free Lazor.

Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely,

Mark Anderson
524 S. 17^th Drive
Donna, Texas 78537
956-520-0143