Activism
2025 Campaigns
Proposed Solutions To backlog of Parole Hearings
Wayland wrote Governor Healey in January of 2025 to offer two solutions to the overwhelming number of emerging adult parole hearings in the wake of the Mattis decision, to issue presumptive parole and stays of execution pending the outcome of parole hearings. Read the letter.
interrupting DOC A loophole to keep Parolees Incarcerated
In February of 2025, Wayland brought attention to the practice of the Parole board granting parole with the requirement that the parolee spend time in a minimum security facility, and the subsequent refusal of the DOC to transfer individuals to those facilities. Read the call to action.
Public Awareness: Suicide oVer Housing
In October of 2025, Wayland shared a recorded message detailing the practice of punishing incarcerated individuals for missing medical appointments, and the suicide of Robert McNickles at MCI Norfolk after he was placed in solitary confinement. Read the transcript.
2023 Campaigns
Fundraiser for Incarcerated person
In August 2023, Wayland organized a GoFundMe for an incarcerated person who was without any family support. Without this assistance, he was not able to provide food or clothing for himself.
Housing Rights Letter Campaign
In September 2023, over 150 people sent letters on behalf of Wayland to Commissioner Mici, demanding she address mental and emotional stress complaints due to the practice of double celling. Read the letter.
“Why is it easier for an incarcerated person to use violence as a means to be moved to another facility, or to be placed in a single cell, than it is to use letter writing and nonviolent communication as a means to address the issue through administrative channels?”
-Wayland X Coleman,
Letter to the Commissioner (2023)
Letter to the Executive Office of Public Safety
In April 2023, Wayland wrote to Commissioner Carol A. Mici of the Executive Office of Public Safety to demand that his unfair housing conditions be addressed without the use of solitary confinement. Read the letter.
On the use of solitary confinement to intimidate witnesses
In November of 2022, Wayland and the Deeper Than Water Coalition issued a press release on the use of solitary confinement to intimidate witnesses.