Biography
Wayne Paul Lauser was a Quaker conscientious objector who left compulsory hospital service and walked from Cleveland to Washington to return his draft cards. He was imprisoned for his Vietnam War draft resistance.
Friends Journal reports Lauser paroled from Allenwood on October 5, 1972 after thirteen and one-half months of a two-year sentence for refusing conscripted civilian work. A Providence Meeting member from Media, he resigned as clerk of the prison Friends meeting and hoped to research for Peoples Neighborhood Medical Center in North Philadelphia. The notice says supervision continued until August 19, 1973; that is not additional imprisonment. Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1972/HC12-50528.pdf#page=2
The March 1, 1972 Sufferings roster names Wayne Lauser of Providence Meeting, Media, Pennsylvania, among Friends who remained imprisoned and gives Allenwood federal prison as his location. This contemporaneous confinement report does not establish a transfer day, final release or complete actual duration. Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1972/HC12-50514.pdf#page=34
Friends Journal reported in November 1971 that Lauser was held at Allenwood under a two-year sentence for refusing civilian work required by Selective Service.
