Incarceration Timeline

Joined Latino Cultural Awareness Committee (LCAC)
Joined Asian Cultural Awareness Committee (ACAC)
Elected Vice Chairman of the Norfolk Music and Performing Arts Committee (NMPAC)
- Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the program, as well as scheduling and organizing music concerts in the prison auditorium.
Elected AACC Function Coordinator
- Responsible for scheduling and organizing events for Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Black History Month. Wayland also proposed, and successfully got Juneteenth established as an AACC celebration.
Accepted into Boston University

Elected by camp-wide vote as Minority Co-Camp Chairman of the Norfolk Resident Council from 2011-2012 (Resident Council elections are for a 1 year term. Can run for reelection.)

Won 2nd election for Minority Co-Camp Chairman in 2017
Exposed Norfolk's toxic drinking water to the public in 2017
Organized with advocates in free society to provide clean drinking water to incarcerated people at Norfolk from 2017-2018

Graduated Boston University with Bachelor's degree
Co-founded and developed the #DeeperThanWaterCoalition
- Toxic drinking water campaign publicized by WBUR, Prison Legal News, and Democracy Now, and more.
Arrived at NCCI-Gardner

Drafted a list of demands to Governor in order to advocate for accommodations for incarcerated people during COVID-19
Organized with #DeeperThanWater to provide healthy food for incarcerated people at the start of COVID-19.
- Incarcerated people were protesting prison food at this time. The food was made by case workers and prison staff, while kitchen staff was not allowed into the prison.
- May 4th: Wayland began providing food to everyone in the unit for three days, after prison guards attempted to serve food that had fallen on the ground.
- May 5th-June 3rd: Wayland was put into solitary confinement, in retaliation for feeding folks inside.
- June 3rd: The staff entered Wayland’s solitary cell and sprayed him with chemicals. They then forced him to move to Old Colony Correctional Center, where positive covid cases were present. (There were no covid cases at Gardner, at that time.) This was at a time where lateral moves between facilities were forbidden.

Completed Programming: Fiction and Storytelling, Financial Literacy, Mexican Cooking Course, Scientific Thinking and Communication

Organized a mail campaign, protesting unstable and unsafe housing practice, advocating for lifers housing rights
Completed Programming: Black History-Black Freedom-Black Love Course, Gardening Course

Arrived at MCI-Norfolk
Completed Programs: Building Effective Teams, Criminal Thinking Program, Dealing With Conflict, Technical Writing, Violence Reduction Program
Career Programming: Clean Energy, Communicating With Others, Electrical Connectors, Electrical Resistance Test Equipment
Elected pro tempore Secretary of the Norfolk Resident Council
Drafted proposal to establish an Empowering Art Self-Improvement group at Norfolk in 2024 (group proposal was approved).

Completed 8 week American Sign Language (ASL) course
- Began tutoring ASL course
Completed Programming: Healthy Habits and Wellbeing
Career Programming: Clean Energy, Construction, Electrical, Plumbing, Solar
May 8th - Received Parole Hearing under the Mattis Decision
October 14th - Denied by the Parole Board

Completed Programs: Alternatives to Violence, Jericho Circle, Money Budgets and Goals
Taught Empowering Art Self-improvement group at Norfolk
Became Assistant ASL Teacher at Norfolk